Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Glossary; Chronology; 1. Sultans, Mughals and pre-colonial Indian society; 2. Mughal twilight: the emergence of regional states and the East India Company; 3. The East India Company Raj, 1772–1850; 4. Revolt, the modern state and colonized subjects, 1848–1885; 5. Civil society, colonial constraints, 1885–1919; 6. The crisis of the colonial order, 1919–1939; 7. The 1940s: triumph and tragedy; 8. Congress Raj: democracy and development, 1950–1989; 9. Democratic India in the nineties: coalitions, class, community, consumers and conflict; Epilogue: a new century begins; Biographical notes; Bibliographic essay; Index.

Promotional Information

A revised and expanded edition covering the history of modern India up to the present.

About the Author

Barbara Metcalf is Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her publications include Islamic Revival in British India (1982) and Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan (2004) . Thomas Metcalf is Emeritus Professor of History and Emeritus Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent publications include Ideologies of the Raj (2004) and Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire (2005).

Reviews

'Lucid, comprehensive and up-to-date, this book will surely establish itself as essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate courses on South Asian history.' C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge 'The almost impossible task of writing a concise history of the subcontinent covering a period of four centuries is achieved by the Professors Metcalf ... This is a great introduction to the subject and the authors are to be congratulated on a most interesting book.' Open History '[The authors'] account of the early Islamic state and popular misconceptions about religious conversion is so persuasively written that these few introductory pages could serve as an excellent model for secular history writing and should be circulated widely.' The Hindu