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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2012
      September 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139207805
      9781107026490
      9781107672185
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207805
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 362 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 362 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Cambridge Concise Histories
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    Cambridge Concise Histories
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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 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.

    Reviews

    ‘This is a beautifully written book, intended for the smart and engaged general reader of history, as well as students of South Asia. A classic in the field!’

    Durba Ghosh - Cornell University

    ‘A Concise History of Modern India is an indispensable guide to Indian history, culture, religion, and politics from the fourteenth century to India’s emergence as a major player in information technology and the global economy in the new millennium. Beautifully crafted, lucidly written, and analytically uncompromising this book is invaluable to scholars interested in the rich and contradictory history of the world’s largest democracy.’

    Rochona Majumdar - University of Chicago

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    • 6 - The Crisis of the Colonial Order, 1919–1939
      pp 167-202
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