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A concise history of modern India /

In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metcalf, Barbara, 1941-
Otros Autores: Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Ã2006
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Cambridge concise histories.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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, 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.