Modern South Asia : history, culture, political economy
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Modern South Asia : history, culture, political economy
Routledge, 1998
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ISBN 9780415169516
Description
Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia is written in an accessible style for all those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity.
This book is a work of synthesis and interpretation covering the entire spectrum of modern South Asian history - social, economic and political. The authors offer an understanding of this startegically and economically vital part of the world and provide new insights into the structure and ideology of the British raj, the meaning of subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class, community and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism and the dynamics of decolonization.
Table of Contents
1. South Asian History: An Introduction 2. Modernity and Antiquity: Interpretations of Ancient India 3. Pre-Modern Accommodations of Difference: The Making of Indo-Islamic Cultures 4. The Mughal Empire: State, Economy and Society 5. India Between Empires: Decline or Decentralization 6. The Transition to Colonialism: Resistance and Collaboration 7. The First Century of British Rule, 1757 to 1857: State and Economy 8.Company Raj and Indian Society, 1757 to 1857: reinvention and Reform of'Tradition' 9. Eighteen Fifty-seven: Rebellion, Collaboration and the Transition to Crown Raj 10. Highy Noon of Colonialism, 1858 to 1914: State and Political Economy 11. A Nation in the Making? 'Rational' Reform, 'Religious' revival and Swadeshi Nationalism, 1858 to 1914 12. Colonialism Under Siege: State and Political Economy after World War I 13. Gandhian Nationalism and Mass Politics in the 1920s 14. The Depression Decade: Society, Economics and Politics 15. Nationalism and Colonialism during World War II and its Aftermath: Economic Crisis and Political Confronatation 16. The Partition of India and the Creation of Pakistan 17. Nineteen Forty-seven: Memories and Meanings 18. Post-Colonial South Asia: State and Economy, Society and Politics, 1947-1971 19. Post-Colonial South Asia: State and Economy, Society and Politics, 1971-1997 20. Decolonizing South Asian HIstory: Fiftieth Anniversary Reflections Glossary Select Bibliography and Notes Index
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The South Asian subcontinent is home to nearly a billion people and has been the site of fierce historical contestation. It is a panoply of languages and religions with a rich and complex history and culture.
Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia is written in an accessible style for all those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity.
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