The Making of India: A Political History - Hardcover

Vohra, Ranbir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765623668 ISBN 13: 9780765623669

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses on Indian civilization and history, this text provides a sweeping look at the long and varied history of India and how this complex legacy has shaped, and is shaping, the nation's modern polity. It offers unique political-historical coverage of India from pre-history into the 21st century.

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Ranbir Vohra

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This thoughtful, balanced, and highly readable work provides a masterful sweep of the long and variegated history of India and its current struggle for modernity. Basing his narrative line on the socioreligious tradition of India, the author helps the reader understand how India's past lives on into the present and how the complex interaction among the forces of imperialism, tradition, and modernity have complicated the problems of state and nation building in contemporary India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765623668
• ISBN 13: 9780765623669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 472