Concise History of Modern India

Name: Concise History of Modern India
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ISBN: 9780521682251

ISBN-10: 0521682258

ISBN-13: 9780521682251

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf

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In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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: reform, disillusionment, division, 1919 1939



The 1940s: triumph and tragedy



Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950 1989



Democratic India in the nineties: coalitions, class, community, consumers, and conflict


Epilogue


Biographical notes


Bibliographic essay


Index