A Concise History of Modern India (Paperback)

Thomas R. Metcalf

ISBN 10: 110767218X / ISBN 13: 9781107672185

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012

Paperback. 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. The Metcalfs' classic history of India has informed students across the world since publication in 2001. This third edition charts the 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781107672185

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The third edition of the Metcalfs' classic history of India charts developments across the last twenty years.

Informazioni sugli autori: Barbara D. Metcalf is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Davis. Her publications include Islamic Revival in British India (1982) and Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan (2004).

Thomas R. Metcalf is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Ideologies of the Raj (1995), Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heydey of Empire (2005) and Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1870–1920 (2007).

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Titolo: A Concise History of Modern India (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new
Edizione: terza edizione