9781107659728

Size : 240mm x 185mm • Pages : 519pp

• Year : 2014 • Binding : Paperback • ISBN : 9781107659728 • Price ` 495.00 only

A History of Modern India Ishita Banerjee-Dube Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor of History at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico.

A History of Modern India

provokes readers to reflect and interrogate, and strive for newer ways of understanding history.

Ishita Banerjee-Dube A History of Modern India 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.

While it does not forego chronology, it does away with the conventional demarcation of political processes and socio-cultural histories in order to portray the multi-faceted nature of social worlds. This book, masterfully,

Strikingly employed visual tools—historical maps, old photographs, posters and imaginative time-lines complement the core narratives. This book will appeal to the scholars, students of history as well as the general readers alike.

CONTENTS 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 Index

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