A concise history of modern India /
This is a concise history of India since the time of the Mughals. It comprises the history of what was known as British India from the late eighteenth century until 1947, when the subcontinent was split into the two independent countries of India and Pakistan, and of the Republic of India thereafter...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge concise histories.
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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, 1848-1885
- 5. Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919
- 6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939
- 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy
- 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989
- 9. Democratic India at the turn of the Millenium: prosperity, poverty, power.