05383nam a2200433 a 4500 28984 BD-DhAAL 20240319105038.0 140312r20132012enkab b 001 0 eng 2012012071 9781107026490 (hardback) 9781107619128 (hardback) 9781107672185 (pbk.) DLC DLC BD-DhAAL DS461 .M47 2012 954 23 Metcalf, Barbara Daly, 1941- 7382 A concise history of modern India / Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf Third edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York ; New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2001 [Reprinted2013, 2016] xxxiv, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Cambridge concise histories Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: 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 constraints, 1885-1919; 6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939; 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy; 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989; 9. Democratic India at the turn of the Millenium: prosperity, poverty, power. "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. Throughout, the authors argue that despite a powerful historiographical tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even 'India'"-- "This is a concise history of India since the time of the Mughals. It comprises the history of what was known as British India from the late eighteenth century until 1947, when the subcontinent was split into the two independent countries of India and Pakistan, and of the Republic of India thereafter. (The history of Pakistan, and after 1971, of Bangladesh, is taken up in a separate volume in this series.) In this work we hope to capture something of the excitement that has characterized the field of India studies in recent decades. Any history written today differs markedly from that of the late 1950s and early 1960s when we, as graduate students, first 'discovered' India. The history of India, like histories everywhere, is now at its best written as a more inclusive story, and one with fewer determining narratives. Not only do historians seek to include more of the population in their histories - women, minorities, the dispossessed - but they are also interested in alternative historical narratives, those shaped by distinctive cosmologies or by local experiences. Historians question, above all, the historical narratives that were forged - as they were everywhere in the modern world - by the compelling visions of nationalism"-- RS Book finder International, karim international 37195, 37196, 37486 India History. 9495 Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934- 9496 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 34001 34001 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 53060 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2015-03-12 Paragon Enterprises 718.00 3 4 954 MET 3010028986 2025-05-14 2025-04-28 3 2015-03-12 BK 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 53061 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2015-03-12 Paragon Enterprises 718.00 4 26 954 MET 3010028985 2022-07-31 2021-10-18 2 2015-03-12 BK 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 53062 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2015-03-12 Paragon Enterprises 718.00 1 9 954 MET 3010028984 2022-09-04 2019-01-07 1 2015-03-12 BK 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 68153 SCL SCL GEN 2020-03-12 Book Finder International 2600.00 24 22 954 MET 3020037196 2025-12-24 2025-12-21 5 2600.00 2020-03-12 BK Received during COVID-19 pandemic 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 68154 SCL SCL GEN 2020-03-12 Book Finder International 2600.00 14 36 954 MET 3020037195 2025-11-25 2025-11-05 4 2600.00 2020-03-12 BK Received during COVID-19 pandemic 0 0 ddc 0 954_000000000000000_MET 0 69315 SCL SCL GEN 2021-03-25 Karim International 1300.00 12 14 954 MET 3020037486 2025-11-17 2025-11-10 6 1300.00 2021-03-25 BK