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A concise history of modern India

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012Description: 326p xxviiISBN:
  • 9781107672185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.000000 MET
Contents:
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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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.