Umfang:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444323511
Serie:
New York Academy of Sciences Series v.10
Inhalt:
A HISTORY OF INDIA, Second Edition -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION TO BURTON STEIN'S A HISTORY OF INDIA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO FIRST EDITION -- PART I -- 1: INTRODUCTION -- THE PHYSICAL SETTING -- THE SOCIAL SETTING -- RESITUATING COMMUNITIES AND STATES -- HISTORIAN'S CHOICE -- PART II: Ancient India -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART II -- 2: ANCIENT DAYS -- THE PRE-FORMATION OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION -- VEDIC CULTURE -- POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENTS -- RELIGION IN THE LATER VEDIC PERIOD -- THE NATURE OF THE MAURYAN KINGDOM -- TOWARDS THE CLASSICAL PATTERN -- EARLY HINDUISM -- DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOUTH -- THE AGE OF THE EARLY EMPIRES -- THE GUPTA CLASSICAL PATTERN -- THE CLASSICAL PATTERN ELABORATED AND EXTENDED: THE SOUTH -- PART III: Medieval and Early Modern India -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART III -- 3: MEDIEVAL INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- MEDIEVAL KINGDOMS -- THE ROLE OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOMS -- THE ADVENT OF ISLAM -- THE INDIAN DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAM -- THE DECCAN AND THE SOUTH -- VIJAYANAGARA -- STATES AND COMMUNITIES -- 4: EARLY MODERN INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MUGHAL EMPIRE -- THE WARS OF THE MUGHAL SUCCESSION -- THE LAST ACT OF THE MUGHALS -- THE MARATHA MOMENT -- THE SHADOW OF EUROPE -- 5: THE EAST INDIA COMPANY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE JOINT TRAJECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT -- THE COMPANY PERPETUATES THE PAST -- THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ORDER -- MUTINY AND REVOLT -- LATE COMPANY RULE -- PART IV: Contemporary South Asia -- CHRONOLOGY OF PART IV -- 6: THE CROWN REPLACES THE COMPANY -- THE CONTEMPORARY STATE -- AFTER THE MUTINY -- THE RULE OF THE RAJ -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CULTURAL CHANGE, EDUCATION AND NEW CLASSES -- THE POLITICIZATION OF CLASS, CASTE AND GENDER -- 7: TOWARDS FREEDOM -- TWO TYPES OF NATIONALISM -- EARLY CONGRESS AND ITS ADVERSARIES.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781405195096
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781405195096
Sprache:
Englisch
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