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 of the b...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge concise histories.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139526494 1139526499 9781139207805 1139207806 9781139528887 1139528882 1139531166 9781139531160 128357506X 9781283575065 9781139532358 1139532359 1107236584 9781107236585 1139540475 9781139540476 |
