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A Concise History of India

Barbara D. MetcalfThomas R. Metcalf

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2002
主題	History / Asia / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / IndiaSocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN	05216397439780521639743
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jGCBNTDv7acC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In a challenging new history of modern India, the authors explore the imaginative and institutional structures that have changed and sustained the country. While previous histories have been composed as handmaids of British nationalism or as products of emerging nationalist identities, this book challenges the notion that a continuous meaning can be applied to social categories such as "caste," "Hindu," "Muslim," or even "India,". An initial chapter focuses on the period of Muslim dynasties that preceded colonial conquest, while the final chapter analyzes the dramatic recent events of the 1990s, including economic change, religious nationalism and India's emergence as a nuclear power. Illustrations and quotations from historical sources are integral to the narrative. Thomas R. Metcalf is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. His previous books inlcude An Imperial Vision (California, 1989) and Ideologies of the Raj (Cambridge, 1997). Barbara Metcalf is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the editor of Making Muslim Space in North America (University of California Press, 1996).