Changing India
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Changing India

Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent

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eBook - PDF

Changing India

Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent

About this book

The revised edition of Robert Stern's book brings India's story up to date. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yet central to the author's argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems and its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. In a journey through its family households and villages, the author explains its long-lived and little understood caste and class systems, its venerable faiths and extraordinary ethnic diversity, its history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism and its post-Independence career as a major agricultural and industrial nation. While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9780521009126
eBook ISBN
9780511057977
Edition
2
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of maps and tables
  7. Preface to the second edition
  8. Glossary
  9. Introduction: Change, the societies of India and Indian society
  10. Part I The changing countryside
  11. Part II Change from above
  12. Appendix One: Major political events in the related histories of British imperialism and Indian nationalism, 1858–1947
  13. Appendix Two: Major political events in the history of the Indian Union, 1947–2002
  14. Notes
  15. Guide to further reading
  16. Index