Edition |
2006 (Second)
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Publication |
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Description |
337pYellow Spine
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Series |
Cambridge concise histories
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Summary/Abstract |
Explores India's modern history afresh and updates the events of the last decade.Highlights questions of caste and religious identity, and the very nature of the Indian nation.
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Contents |
Sultan, 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 the 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
Epilogue: a new century begins
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Standard Number |
9780521733106 Pb.
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