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100 _aMetcalf Barbara D
245 _aA concise history of modern India
260 _aCambridge
_bCambridge University Press
_c2012
300 _a326p
_cxxvii
365 _b Rs. 1,730
505 _aTable 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.
650 _a1. Indian History
700 _aMetcalf Thomas R
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