India in the world : 1500 to the present /
"If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to discover the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Ameri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in modern history.
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| Summary: | "If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to discover the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi's creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements, India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods, people, and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely, how has India's global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite, and at times because of, the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries, India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective"-- |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 215 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032494647 1032494646 9781032494654 1032494654 |