A concise history of modern India /
"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 o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York ; New Delhi :
Cambridge University Press,
2001 [Reprinted2013, 2016]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Cambridge concise histories
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 Millenium: prosperity, poverty, power.