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 3
... trade, finance, culture, and society that offered the English the very resources they needed to exercise their own remarkable innovations in finance, organization, and military and naval technology. This chapter introduces the middle ...
... trade, finance, culture, and society that offered the English the very resources they needed to exercise their own remarkable innovations in finance, organization, and military and naval technology. This chapter introduces the middle ...
الصفحة 5
... trade within the region and beyond. Arabic—speaking Muslims had been present much earlier in the subcontinent, establishing a kingdom in Sind in the lower Indus valley in 71 1 as part of the expansion of the Umayyad dynasty based in ...
... trade within the region and beyond. Arabic—speaking Muslims had been present much earlier in the subcontinent, establishing a kingdom in Sind in the lower Indus valley in 71 1 as part of the expansion of the Umayyad dynasty based in ...
الصفحة 12
... trading networks, social life, and religious institutions, as well as political strategies, that made for continuity across a broad geographical area. The fifteenth and early sixteenth 12 A Concise History ofModern India.
... trading networks, social life, and religious institutions, as well as political strategies, that made for continuity across a broad geographical area. The fifteenth and early sixteenth 12 A Concise History ofModern India.
الصفحة 24
... trade, to be sure, was largely in the hands of Arabs and, from the beginning of the sixteenth cen— tury, the Portuguese. English and Dutch trading companies further established themselves in coastal enclaves during the seventeenth ...
... trade, to be sure, was largely in the hands of Arabs and, from the beginning of the sixteenth cen— tury, the Portuguese. English and Dutch trading companies further established themselves in coastal enclaves during the seventeenth ...
الصفحة 26
... trading companies, of new techniques of shipbuilding, horticulture, and even art (for example, in depictions of landscape and perspective). A metaphor of 'stagnation' could not be more misleading. The flexibility and openness of Mughal ...
... trading companies, of new techniques of shipbuilding, horticulture, and even art (for example, in depictions of landscape and perspective). A metaphor of 'stagnation' could not be more misleading. The flexibility and openness of Mughal ...
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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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