(A) Concise history of modern India
by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2006
- xxxiii, 337p. ; 22 cm.
Includes glossary, chronology, bibliographical notes, bibliographic essay and index.
Sultans, Mughals and pre-colonial Indian society -- Mughal twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company -- The East India Company Raj, 1772-1850 -- Revolt, the modern state and colonized subjects, 1848-1885 -- Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885-1919 -- The crisis of the colonial order, 1919-1939 -- The 1940s: triumph and tragedy -- Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950-1989 -- Democratic India in the nineties: coalitions, class, community, consumers, and conflict