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9780195056372

A New History of India

  • ISBN13:

    9780195056372

  • ISBN10:

    019505637X

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1989-02-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The most accurate and readable one-volume history of India is now brought fully up to date, with new chapters covering the current Punjab crisis, the Hindu-Sikh conflicts that followed Operation Bluestar and Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the strengths and weaknesses of Rajiv Gandhi's government. Wolpert places recent developments such as the Bhopal disaster, the war in Sri Lanka, rampant growth and pollution in Delhi, "dowry deaths" and the alarming rebirth of Sati -widow burnings within the context of India's 4,000 years of continental continuity and communal complexity. No other history records as brilliantly, nor as truthfully, the brightest achievements of Indian civilization and the dark depths of its socio-sexual inequities and economic-political corruptions.

Table of Contents

The Ecological Setting
Indus Culture (ca. 2500-1600 B.C.)
The Aryan Age (ca. 1500-1000 B.C.)
North Indian Conquest and Unification (ca. 1000-450)
India's First Imperial Unification (326-184 B.C.)
Political Fragmentation and Economic and Cultural Enrichment (ca 184 B.C.-A.D. 320)
The Classical Age (A.D. 320-ca. 700)
The Impact of Islam (ca. 711-1556)
Mughal Imperial Unification (1556-1605)
Western Europe's Vanguard (1498-1669)
Great Mughal Glory (1605-1707)
Twilight of the Mughal Empire (1707-64)
John Company Raj (1765-93)
The New Mughals (1793-1848)
Unification, Modernization, and Revolt (1848-58)
Crown Rule--A New Order (1858-77)
Indian Nationalism--The First Movement (1885-1905)
The Machine Solidifies (1885-1905)
Revolt, Repression, and Reform (1905-12)
The Impact of World War One (1914-19)
Toward Independence (1920-39)
The Impact of World War Two (1939-46)
The Nehru Era (1947-64)
From Collective Leadership to Indira Raj (1964-77)
An Interlude of Janata Raj
India Today
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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