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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... military technology of the Sultanate, even employing units of north Indian mounted fighters. Although drawing on earlier models of south Indian kingship, Vijayanagar shared political idioms with the neighbouring states as well. Several ...
... military technology of the Sultanate, even employing units of north Indian mounted fighters. Although drawing on earlier models of south Indian kingship, Vijayanagar shared political idioms with the neighbouring states as well. Several ...
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... military strategy and superior artillery of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) at Panipat, north— west of Delhi. Like the Sultans, the Mughals stimulated a new level of settled agriculture, military capability, and geographic ...
... military strategy and superior artillery of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) at Panipat, north— west of Delhi. Like the Sultans, the Mughals stimulated a new level of settled agriculture, military capability, and geographic ...
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Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. from hard—boiled military strategy to the nuances of Turkic and Per— sian poetry. His own Turkic memoirs, and his daughter Gulbadan's Persian memoirs, are testimony to this image. Gulbadan recounted ...
Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. from hard—boiled military strategy to the nuances of Turkic and Per— sian poetry. His own Turkic memoirs, and his daughter Gulbadan's Persian memoirs, are testimony to this image. Gulbadan recounted ...
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... military and scribal officials, largely non-Muslim. Loyalty was focused on the person of the ruler, the apex of a pyramid of vertical bonds. Akbar's chief memoirist and publicist, Abu'l Fazl, held up the emperor as a man of ...
... military and scribal officials, largely non-Muslim. Loyalty was focused on the person of the ruler, the apex of a pyramid of vertical bonds. Akbar's chief memoirist and publicist, Abu'l Fazl, held up the emperor as a man of ...
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... military — thus a check on each other — at levels from district, to province, to centre, throughout the empire. Nobles were assigned the right to collect the assessed tax revenue of pieces of land, jagirs, as the basis of their ...
... military — thus a check on each other — at levels from district, to province, to centre, throughout the empire. Nobles were assigned the right to collect the assessed tax revenue of pieces of land, jagirs, as the basis of their ...
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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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