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 23
... Aurangzeb depended on non—Muslim courtiers. More than a quarter of the mansab holders along with his leading general were Hindus. Did Aurangzeb's very success in achieving the widest expansion of the empire, as is often argued, sow the ...
... Aurangzeb depended on non—Muslim courtiers. More than a quarter of the mansab holders along with his leading general were Hindus. Did Aurangzeb's very success in achieving the widest expansion of the empire, as is often argued, sow the ...
الصفحة 24
... Aurangzeb did not come from groups that had been suppressed under Muslim rule and now sought to regain their autonomy. Marathas, Sikhs, Jats, and even Rajputs represented social groups with old names but new cohesion and status. These ...
... Aurangzeb did not come from groups that had been suppressed under Muslim rule and now sought to regain their autonomy. Marathas, Sikhs, Jats, and even Rajputs represented social groups with old names but new cohesion and status. These ...
الصفحة 25
... Aurangzeb in the Deccan. Shiv— aji was of cultivator background, from peoples known in western India as Marathas. By ... Aurangzeb's Rajput general, Jai Singh, and accepted a mansab in Mughal service, only to defy imperial ritual when he ...
... Aurangzeb in the Deccan. Shiv— aji was of cultivator background, from peoples known in western India as Marathas. By ... Aurangzeb's Rajput general, Jai Singh, and accepted a mansab in Mughal service, only to defy imperial ritual when he ...
الصفحة 29
... Aurangzeb as ruler comes from one Bhimsen, a Hindu Kayastha memoirist, who, in his final decades of service, acted as auditor and inspector for a Rajput noble. Writing at the end of Aurangzeb's life, Bhimsen gives us a 'grass. 29 Mughal ...
... Aurangzeb as ruler comes from one Bhimsen, a Hindu Kayastha memoirist, who, in his final decades of service, acted as auditor and inspector for a Rajput noble. Writing at the end of Aurangzeb's life, Bhimsen gives us a 'grass. 29 Mughal ...
الصفحة 30
... Aurangzeb: When the aim of the ruling sovereign is the happiness of the people, the country prospers, the peasants ... Aurangzeb's death, as Muzaffar Alam has made clear in several studies, zamindars across northern and central India ...
... Aurangzeb: When the aim of the ruling sovereign is the happiness of the people, the country prospers, the peasants ... Aurangzeb's death, as Muzaffar Alam has made clear in several studies, zamindars across northern and central India ...
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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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