A Concise History of Modern IndiaCambridge University Press, 24/09/2012 A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest. The narrative focuses on the fundamentally political theme of the imaginative and institutional structures that have successively sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development and its rich cultural life. |
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الصفحة xxvii
... subcontinent thinly populated by hunters, gatherers, and herders. c. 1500-1200 B.C. Aryan culture in Punjab and western Gangetic plain derived from contacts or population movements from Central Asia. Ritual texts, the Vedas, in the ...
... subcontinent thinly populated by hunters, gatherers, and herders. c. 1500-1200 B.C. Aryan culture in Punjab and western Gangetic plain derived from contacts or population movements from Central Asia. Ritual texts, the Vedas, in the ...
الصفحة xxviii
... subcontinent. He converts to Buddhism after his conquest of Kalinga (261); Buddhist missions begin in South Asia, spread to East and South—East Asia. c. zoo B.c.—zoo C.E. Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic ...
... subcontinent. He converts to Buddhism after his conquest of Kalinga (261); Buddhist missions begin in South Asia, spread to East and South—East Asia. c. zoo B.c.—zoo C.E. Sanskrit 'sastras' describe ideal society of four hierarchic ...
الصفحة xxx
... subcontinent outside the north—west. 1819 Founding of Hindu College, Calcutta. 1828 Ram Mohan Roy founds Brahmo Samaj. 1829 Bentinck abolishes sati. 183 5 Macaulay's Minute on Education. 1849 Second Sikh War; conquest of Punjab ...
... subcontinent outside the north—west. 1819 Founding of Hindu College, Calcutta. 1828 Ram Mohan Roy founds Brahmo Samaj. 1829 Bentinck abolishes sati. 183 5 Macaulay's Minute on Education. 1849 Second Sikh War; conquest of Punjab ...
الصفحة 1
... subcontinent had ever known. It was far greater in population, wealth, and power than the contemporaneous Turko—Mongol empires with which the Mughals shared so much: the Persian Safavids and the Ottoman Turks. The Mughal population in ...
... subcontinent had ever known. It was far greater in population, wealth, and power than the contemporaneous Turko—Mongol empires with which the Mughals shared so much: the Persian Safavids and the Ottoman Turks. The Mughal population in ...
الصفحة 4
... subcontinent through the mountain passages of the north—west. One immediate corrective to much scholarship is to emphasize how much their kingdom had in common with other Indic polities of the day. Like these other states, including ...
... subcontinent through the mountain passages of the north—west. One immediate corrective to much scholarship is to emphasize how much their kingdom had in common with other Indic polities of the day. Like these other states, including ...
المحتوى
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The East India Company Raj 17721850 | 56 |
Revolt the modern state and colonized subjects 184 81885 | 92 |
Civil society colonial constraints 18851919 | 123 |
The crisis of the colonial order 19191939 | 167 |
Triumph and tragedy | 203 |
Democracy and development 19501989 23 1 | 231 |
Prosperity poverty power 26 5 | 265 |
Biographical notes | 295 |
Bibliographic essay 3 01 | 305 |
I 3 | 313 |
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