Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 335 p)
Edition:
3rd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781139531160
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128357506X
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9781107026490
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9781283575065
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9781139527699
Series Statement:
Cambridge Concise Histories
Content:
The third edition of the Metcalfs' classic history of India charts developments across the last twenty years
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; A Concise History of Modern India; Series; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; GLOSSARY; PLACE NAMES: ALTERNATE SPELLINGS; CHRONOLOGY; EARLY INDIA; 1: Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society; THE DELHI SULTANATE; THE EMERGENCE OF REGIONAL KINGDOMS; THE MUGHAL EMPIRE; 2: Mughal twilight: The emergence of regional states and the East India Company; THE 'FAULT LINES' OF MUGHAL CONTROL; THE NORTH-WEST: SIKHS, PERSIANS, AND AFGHANS; THE NEW REGIONAL ORDER: 'MILITARY FISCALISM' AND CULTURAL EFFLORESCENCE
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THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANYTHE CONQUEST OF BENGAL; 3: The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850; FOUNDATION OF COLONIAL RULE; CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT; TRADITION AND REFORM: INDIAN SOCIETY UNDER THE COMPANY; 4: Revolt, the modern state, and colonized subjects, 1848-1885; DALHOUSIE: THE UNIFICATION OF SOVEREIGNTY AND NETWORKS OF COMMUNICATION; 1857, CROWN RULE, AND THE AFTERMATH OF REVOLT; THE STRUCTURING OF THE RAJ: SECURITY, SANITATION, ORDERING SOCIETY; 'NATURAL LEADERS' AND THE LANGUAGES OF MODERNITY; THE ENGLISH-EDUCATED; THE VERNACULARS
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5: Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919A GLOBAL IMPERIAL SYSTEM; NEW CLASSES, NEW COLLABORATORS; VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, AND TRADITIONALIST INSTITUTIONS; WOMEN AND GENDER; THE DECADE OF THE NINETIES: COMMUNALISM AND CALAMITIES; LORD CURZON AND THE PARTITION OF BENGAL; WORLD WAR ONE, NEW GOALS, NEW ALLIANCES; 6: The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939; REFORM AND REPRESSION; THE ADVENT OF GANDHI; THE POWER OF GANDHI'S NAME: SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS; THE COURSE OF NON-COOPERATION; AGRARIAN AND INDUSTRIAL UPHEAVALS; NON-COOPERATION: ROUND TWO, 1927-1934
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NEW OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEW CONFLICTSINDUSTRY AND THE ECONOMY; 7: The 1940s: Triumph and tragedy; FROM NEGOTIATION TO THE AUGUST 'RISING'; JINNAH AND THE PAKISTAN IDEA; WAR AND FAMINE; FROM THE SIMLA CONFERENCE TO THE CABINET MISSION; MASSACRE AND PARTITION; DEFINING THE NATION: PRINCES, KASHMIR, ABDUCTED WOMEN; THE HINDU RIGHT AND THE ASSASSINATION OF GANDHI; 8: Congress Raj: Democracy and development, 1950-1989; THE NEW POLITICAL ORDER; THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER; WAR, FAMINE, AND POLITICAL TURMOIL; INDIRA RAJ; THE JANATA INTERLUDE AND INDIRA'S RETURN
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THE END OF A DYNASTY - RAJIV GANDHI, 1984-19899: Democratic India at the turn of the millennium: Prosperity, poverty, power; THE 1990S AND THE RISE OF HINDU NATIONALISM; ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION; AN ASIAN CENTURY; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY; PREFACE; 1: SULTANS, MUGHALS, AND PRE-COLONIAL INDIAN SOCIETY; 2: MUGHAL TWILIGHT: THE EMERGENCE OF REGIONAL STATES AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY; 3: THE EAST INDIA COMPANY RAJ, 1772-1850; 4: REVOLT, THE MODERN STATE, AND COLONIZED SUBJECTS, 1848-1885; 5: CIVIL SOCIETY, COLONIAL CONSTRAINTS, 1885-1919
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6: THE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL ORDER, 1919-1939
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283575957
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Concise History of Modern India
Language:
English
