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Book SynopsisThis second edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world''s largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India''s society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of interaction between what was indigenous to India and the many external influences brought to bear on the country by economic, political, and ideological contact with the Western world.Modern scholarship has shown how diverse and complex was India''s socio-economic and political development; and this theme runs through the study which eschews any simple understanding of India''s political developmen
Trade ReviewBy far the best recent introductory account of the modern history of India * Times Higher Education Supplement *
Table of ContentsThe Indian subcontinent - land, people, power; the consolidation of dominion - illusion and reality; the dilemmas of dominion; war and the search for a new order; a critical decade - India - empire or nation?; India in the 1940s - a great divide?; India's democratic experience.
