A concise history of modern India
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A concise history of modern India
（Cambridge concise histories）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
3rd ed
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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, 1848-85
- 5. Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919
- 6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-39
- 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy
- 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-89
- 9. Democratic India at the turn of the Millennium: prosperity, poverty, power.
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