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A Concise History of Modern India
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A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest. The narrative focuses on the fundamentally political theme of the imaginative and institutional structures that have successively sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development and its rich cultural life.
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“Congress's withdrawal from the provinces left a political void that allowed the League to contest claims of Congress' representative and to increase its political involvement (Metcalf & Metcalf, 2012).”
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“The psychological foundations of colonialism were also weakened by military defeats, and nationalists in Asia were encouraged by these setbacks as Metcalf and Metcalf (2012) also point out.”
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“The consensus of the scholarly literature is that the war was a defining event in the geopolitical, economic and political environment in which British imperial control was maintained and national movements emerged (Hobsbawm, 1994;Louis, 2006;Metcalf & Metcalf, 2012).”
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“This unilateral move further added to the growing tensions in politics in India and revealed the fractures within political institutions (Metcalf & Metcalf, 2012).”
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“In the eyes of Metcalf and Metcalf (2012) these successes granted the Pakistan Movement democratic legitimacy and enabled Jinnah to have a greater bargaining power in the constitutional negotiations.”
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- Authors
- Metcalf, B. D., & Metcalf, T. R.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2012-09-24
- OpenAlex
- W2965513766
- Cited by
- 104
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 3.14
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Indian Economic and Social Development
- Keywords
- modern Indian history, Mughal Empire, British colonial rule, Indian independence, Indian National Congress, poverty, political unrest, socio-economic development, Indian culture, political institutions
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