A History of Modern India 1480-1950

by Markovits, Claude

• ISBN13: 9781843310044
• ISBN10: 184331004X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Anthem Pr

Summary

As well as analysing the major empires of modern India, from the Mughals to the Raj, A History of Modern India also considers the economic, social and intellectual dynamism that accompanied intervening periods of political fragmentation, such as the 80 years that separated the Mughal and the British regimes. The book explores the difficulties confronting the rise of Indian nationalism and the consequent confrontation between religious communities, delving into how a resolution that should have been the crowning victory of a pacifist anticolonial movement was instead resolved tragically with the violence of Partition in 1947.

Table of Contents

List of maps	p. 00
Introduction	p. 1
At the turn of the sixteenth century	p. 9
A changing world	p. 11
The Indian states: the sultanates	p. 23
The Indian states: the kingdoms	p. 41
The newcomers	p. 61
The Mogul Empire (1556-1739)	p. 79
Akbar and the construction of the empire (1556-1605)	p. 81
Mogul splendour: The successors of Akbar (1605-1707)	p. 96
The empire in its prosperity	p. 111
Maritime economy and the trading companies	p. 132
Society and culture	p. 150
The disintegration of the Mogul Empire (1707-39)	p. 172
India between two empires (1739-1818)	p. 185
The successor states (1739-61)	p. 187
French India and Franco-British rivalry (until 1761)	p. 208
The British conquest of Bengal (1757-84)	p. 231
The birth of the British Empire in India (1765-1818)	p. 247
India in transition (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century)	p. 269
The beginnings of the Raj (1818-58)	p. 271
The agrarian economy and rural society (1790-1860)	p. 294
Merchants and cities (1760-1860)	p. 316
Cultural and religious transformations (1780-1857)	p. 330
From the British Indian Empire to Independence (1858-1950)	p. 345
The Colonial state and Indian society (1858-1914)	p. 347
The decline of the empire and the rise of nationalism (1914-42)	p. 366
Princely India (1858-1950)	p. 386
The world of the countryside (1860-1950)	p. 410
Trade, industries, cities (1860-1950)	p. 432
Socio-religious reforms and nationalism (1870-1948)	p. 450
The end of the British Empire in India	p. 468
On the margins of the Empire	p. 493
French India (nineteenth-twentieth century)	p. 495
Sri Lanka: specificities and similarities	p. 520
Conclusion	p. 539
Chronology	p. 554
Glossary	p. 564
Index	p. 574
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