A History of Modern India

This book deals with a very important phase of Indian history, covering developments from the eighteenth century to independent India.

Ishita Banerjee-Dube (Author)

9781107659728, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 October 2014

519 pages
24 x 18.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.96 kg

'The survey is a masterly one. It presents a wide range of material and it is written in an enjoyable manner which makes it eminently readable.' Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

Photographs, maps, posters and figures
About the author
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. The colourful world of the eighteenth century
2. Emergence of the Company Raj
3. An inaugural century
4. Creating anew
5. Imagining India
6. Challenge and rupture
7. The Mahatma phenomenon
8. Difficulties and initiatives
9. Many pathways of a nation
10. The tumultuous forties
11. 1947 and after
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], Asian history [HBJF]