02184nam a22003618a 4500 CR9781139207805 UkCbUP 20180107143410.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 111129s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139207805 (ebook) 9781107026490 (hardback) 9781107672185 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda DS461 .M47 2012 954 23 Metcalf, Barbara D., author. A Concise History of Modern India / [electronic resource] Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf. 3rd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Concise Histories Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Metcalf, Thomas R., author. Print version: 9781107026490 Cambridge Concise Histories. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207805 Cambridge Books Online 236349 236349