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A concise history of modern India

Metcalf Barbara D

A concise history of modern India - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 326p xxvii

Table of contents
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, 1848-85;
5. Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919;
6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-39;
7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy;
8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-89;
9. Democratic India at the turn of the Millennium: prosperity, poverty, power.

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1. Indian History

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