The Cambridge History of India
Author | : Edward James Rapson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward James Rapson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mountstuart Elphinstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward James Rapson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard M. Eaton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521254847 |
In this fascinating account of one of the least known parts of South Asia, Eaton recounts the history of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the rise of European colonialism. He does so, vividly, through the lives of eight Indians who lived at different times during this period, and who each represented something particular about the Deccan. In the first chapter, for example, the author describes the demise of the regional kingdom through the life of a maharaja. In the second, a Sufi sheikh illustrates Muslim piety and state authority. Other characters include a merchant, a general, a slave, a poet, a bandit and a female pawnbroker. Their stories are woven together into a rich narrative tapestry, which illumines the most important social processes of the Deccan across four centuries. This is a much-needed book by the most highly regarded scholar in the field.
Author | : David Arnold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521563192 |
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.
Author | : Burton Stein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521619257 |
The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century. During this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past toward a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history of Vijayanagara, this book details the pattern of rule established in this important and long-lived Hindu kingdom that was followed by other, often smaller kingdoms of peninsular India until the onset of colonialism. Through an analysis of the politics, society, and economy of Vijayanagara, the author addresses the central question of the extent to which Vijayanagara, as a medieval Hindu kingdom, can be viewed as a prototype of the polities and societies confronted by the British in the late eighteenth century. The book thus presents an understanding and appreciation of one of the great medieval kingdoms of India as well as a more general assessment of the nature of the state, society, and culture on the eve of European colonial rule.
Author | : Tapan Raychaudhuri |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521226929 |
Examines the history of India during the period c. 1200-c. 1750.
Author | : Tapan Raychaudhuri |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521228022 |
Volume 2 of The Cambridge Economic History of India covers the period 1757-1970, from the establishment of British rule to its termination, with epilogues on the post-Independence period.
Author | : David Ludden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316025365 |
Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
Author | : Barbara D. Metcalf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139458876 |
In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.