Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) - Softcover

Brown, Judith M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198228597 ISBN 13: 9780198228592

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

This second edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of interaction between what was indigenous to India and the many external influences brought to bear on the country by economic, political, and ideological contact with the Western world.;Modern scholarship has shown how diverse and complex was India's socio-economic and political development; and this theme runs through the study which eschews any simple understanding of India's political development as a clash between imperialism' and 'nationalism' , or the making of a new nation. The complexity reflects many of the continuing ambiguities and inequalities in the subcontinent's life and suggests w

About this title

Review:

By far the best recent introductory account of the modern history of India (Times Higher Education Supplement)

About the Author:

Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0198228597
• ISBN 13: 9780198228592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446