A concise history of India

A concise history of India / Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf.

While early histories were often composed as handmaids of British imperialism or as products of emerging nationalist identities, this book challenges the notion that a continuous meaning can be applied to social categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even �...

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Main Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly, 1941-
Other Authors: Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge concise histories
Subjects:
India > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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