A History of IndiaThis fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, and now also evaluates present-day developments and opportunities. A History of India, Second Edition • examines the relationships between politics, religious belief, social order, environment and economic change • assesses, from c. 1860, British colonialism, Indian nationalism and nation-building, popular protest movements, religious revivals, and re-inventions of caste, community and gender • discusses long-term economic development, the impact of global trade, and the origins of rural poverty • has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship, and now features a Chronology as well as a fully reworked final chapter which brings the story up to the present day and carefully considers India's prospects and new roles in the world. Centred around clearly expressed and well argued topics, issues and explanations, A History of India remains the ideal introduction for all those who wish to understand the drama and vitality of India's past, its present situation and its future challenges. |
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although it includes some of the finest books on mughal history in its biography, it fails to make any use of them, the author has a strong anti-muslim bias, when he says hindus were removed from their imperial posts by the emperor Aurangzeb, when specialist historians like Satish Chandra and Athar Ali have stated the opposite in their much acclaimed path breaking analysis of Mughal history. It's surprising that this general history book appears to be the work of a professor who once was head of the dept. of history at SOAS, if i had not read who the author was, i would think that it was written by a RSS ideologue.
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Contents
List of Maps | |
Some Vedic gods devas | |
Early India | |
Texts and dates | |
Mediaeval India | |
States and empires of early modern India | |
MughalMarathaBritish Indian polity | |
Mughal Turani nobles descended from Ghaziuddin Khan Firuz 8 Major rulers in India from 1772 | |
Landholdings in two Indian villages | |
Landholding in a Punjab village I | |
Major Indian states GDP and income per capita population and GDP growth 19992006 | |
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administration agrarian agricultural Akbar allIndia areas Artha Shastra Aurangzib Awadh became Bengal Bihar Brahmans British Buddhism Calcutta caste cent central centres civil classes colonial rule Common Era Company’s Congress continued crops cultivators culture dalits Deccan decline Delhi Delhi sultans developed dominated early East India Company economic eighteenth century elites empire especially European example export famine Gandhi Gujarat Gupta Hindu Hinduism History History of India ideas identity imperial implied important increased independence influence irrigation Islam Jainism king Kshatriya labour land landlords later Marathas mediaeval merchants military Modern India movements Mughal Muhammad Muslim nationalist nineteenth century north India northwest officials parties peasant Peter Robb political population production Punjab Rajputs regional religion religious revenue ritual roles rulers settlement Shah Sikh socalled social society South state’s sultans Tamil temples territories trade traditions twentieth century Vedic Vijayanagara village Western women workers
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of India Palgrave Essential Histories series |
| Author | Peter Robb |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan International Higher Education, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0230345492, 9780230345492 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General History / Asia / India & South Asia History / World |
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