Modern South Asia
History, Culture, Political Economy
Price: 645.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198092247
Publication date:
11/04/2014
Paperback
292 pages
241.0x160.0mm
Price: 645.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198092247
Publication date:
11/04/2014
Paperback
292 pages
241.0x160.0mm
Third Edition
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Suitable for: The primary market for this book will be the libraries of all universities-institutions with courses on modern Indian history and history of South Asia. The secondary market comprises students, teachers and scholars of modern Indian history, history of South Asia, political science and sociology
Rights: SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS (RESTRICTED)
Third Edition
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Description
Drawing on the newest and the most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides a challenging insight for those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures, and economics that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. In this comprehensive study, the authors interpret and debate the striking developments in contemporary South Asian history and historical writing, covering an entire spectrum of the region’s modern history—social, economic and political. The book provides new insights into the structure and the ideology of the British raj, the meaning of the subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along the lines of caste, class, community and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism, and the dynamics of decolonization. This third edition brings the debate up to the present day, taking account of recent historical research and covering the closer integration of South Asia with the global economy, the impact of developments in Afghanistan on the region as a whole, and the fresh challenges to South Asia’s nation-states.
Third Edition
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Third Edition
Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Description
Drawing on the newest and the most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides a challenging insight for those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, it offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures, and economics that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. In this comprehensive study, the authors interpret and debate the striking developments in contemporary South Asian history and historical writing, covering an entire spectrum of the region’s modern history—social, economic and political. The book provides new insights into the structure and the ideology of the British raj, the meaning of the subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along the lines of caste, class, community and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism, and the dynamics of decolonization. This third edition brings the debate up to the present day, taking account of recent historical research and covering the closer integration of South Asia with the global economy, the impact of developments in Afghanistan on the region as a whole, and the fresh challenges to South Asia’s nation-states.
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