Concise History of Modern India

Name: Concise History of Modern India
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ISBN: 9781107672185

ISBN-10: 110767218X

ISBN-13: 9781107672185

Edition: 3rd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf

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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…

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List price: $25.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.320

Thomas R. Metcalf,Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is author ofForging the Raj, Ideologies of the Raj,An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture,andBritain's Raj(UC Press), and, with Barbara Daly Metcalf,A Concise History of Modern India.




Sultans, Mughals, and pre-colonial Indian society



Mughal twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company



The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850



Revolt, the modern state, and colonized subjects, 1848-1885



Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919



The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939



The 1940s: triumph and tragedy



Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989



Democratic India at the turn of the Millennium: prosperity, poverty, power