A concise history of India
In a challenging new history of modern India, the authors explore the imaginative and institutional structures that have changed and sustained the country. They also document the social changes and rich cultural life that evolved in interaction with that political structure and vision. The work represents a tour de force.
Print Book, English, 2006
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
xxiii, 337 sider : illustrations
9780521863629, 9780521630276, 9780521682251, 0521863627, 0521630274, 0521682258
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1. Sultans, Mughals and Pre-Colonial Indian Society; 2. Mughal Twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company; 3. The East India Company Raj, 1772–1850; 4. Revolt, the modern state and colonized subjects, 1848–1885; 5. Civil Society, Colonial Restraints, 1885–85; 6. The crisis of the colonial Order: Reform, disillusionment, division, 1919–39; 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy; 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950–89; 9. Democratic India in the nineties.