UID:
almahu_9947413920702882
Format:
1 online resource (xxxiv, 326 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
9781139207805 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge concise histories
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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 -- 6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 -- 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy -- 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989 -- 9. Democratic India at the turn of the Millennium: prosperity, poverty, power.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107026490
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207805
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