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100	1		_aMetcalf, Barbara D., _91279 _eauthor
245	1	2	_aConcise history of modern India / _cBarbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf.
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
490	0		_aCambridge concise histories
520			_a"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. Throughout, the authors argue that despite a powerful historiographical tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even 'India'"--
650			_aIndia--History. _9535816
700	1		_aMetcalf, Thomas R., _91282 _eauthor
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