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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... regional kingdoms that succeeded the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth cen— tury. Both were periods characterized by widespread similarities and connections, despite political divisions, as well as by creative cultural expression in local ...
... regional kingdoms that succeeded the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth cen— tury. Both were periods characterized by widespread similarities and connections, despite political divisions, as well as by creative cultural expression in local ...
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... regional epic and legendary figures into their writings. In the Bengali Nahi—vanisa of the late sixteenth century, for example, the deities of the Hindu pantheon were simply understood as Islamic prophets. In architecture as well the ...
... regional epic and legendary figures into their writings. In the Bengali Nahi—vanisa of the late sixteenth century, for example, the deities of the Hindu pantheon were simply understood as Islamic prophets. In architecture as well the ...
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... regional states of the eighteenth century can thus be seen as the fruition, not the end, of Mughal rule. The challenges to Aurangzeb did not come from groups that had been suppressed under Muslim rule and now sought to regain their ...
... regional states of the eighteenth century can thus be seen as the fruition, not the end, of Mughal rule. The challenges to Aurangzeb did not come from groups that had been suppressed under Muslim rule and now sought to regain their ...
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... regional cross-fertilization. Mughal miniature painting and architecture, both with Persian roots but utterly transformed in the Indian environment, endure as the most visible legacies of that brilliant cultural life. Medical sys— tems ...
... regional cross-fertilization. Mughal miniature painting and architecture, both with Persian roots but utterly transformed in the Indian environment, endure as the most visible legacies of that brilliant cultural life. Medical sys— tems ...
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... villages, rigid caste hierarchies, and overall stagnation, reads characteristics of colonial society into the pre—colonial past. 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the 28 A Concise History ofModern India.
... villages, rigid caste hierarchies, and overall stagnation, reads characteristics of colonial society into the pre—colonial past. 2 Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the 28 A Concise History ofModern 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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