D. R. Sardesai

India

The Definitive History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the sweep of traditional Indian history as well as with the post-independence events, judicially balancing narrative and analysis in the conceptual framework of postcolonial and postmodernist approaches, covering the process of change in India through the centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 877g
• ISBN-13: 9780813343525
• ISBN-10: 0813343526
• Artikelnr.: 20987441

Autorenporträt

SarDesai, D. R.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Land and the Human Fabric
India in Prehistoric Times
The Vedic Age, ca. 1200 BCE
600 BCE
Birth of Two Religions
State and Politics in Ancient India
The Era of Consolidation
Early Islam
Peninsular Kingdoms
The Great Mughals
The Rise of the Marathas and the Sikhs
The European Powers in India
Reaction to British Rule
The Indian Nationalist Movement, 1850
1919
The Road to Freedom Through Partition
The March of Indian Democracy, Part I
The March of Indian Democracy, Part II
The Princely States and the Kashmir Question
Toward Economic Freedom
India's Foreign Policy