A History of Modern India, 1480-1950Claude Markovits 'A History of Modern India' provides a comprehensive chronological analysis of India’s vibrant and diverse history. As well as analysing the major empires of modern India, from the Mughals to the Raj, 'A History of Modern India' 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. |
Contents
List of maps | 1 |
PART | 9 |
The Indian Ocean in the 16th Century | 12 |
Chapter | 16 |
the sultanates | 23 |
India around 1475 | 24 |
the kingdoms | 41 |
South India at the Beginning of the 16th Century | 45 |
The agrarian economy and rural society 17901860 | 294 |
Merchants and cities 17601860 | 316 |
Cultural and religious transformations 17801857 | 330 |
PART FIVE From the British Indian Empire to Independence | 345 |
The Colonial state and Indian society 18581914 | 347 |
The decline of the empire and the rise of nationalism 191442 | 366 |
Princely India 18581950 | 386 |
The Princely States 1939 | 400 |
The newcomers | 61 |
The Conquests of the First Moguls Babur Humayun | 70 |
PART | 79 |
The Mogul Empire at the Death of Akbar | 84 |
Principal European Settlements on the Coast of India | 134 |
The Mogul Empire at the End of the Reign of Aurangzeb | 177 |
PART THREE India between two empires 17391818 | 185 |
The successor states 173961 | 187 |
Successor States and Territories Controlled by the British | 192 |
French India and FrancoBritish rivalry until 1761 | 208 |
The British conquest of Bengal 175784 | 231 |
The birth of the British Empire in India 17651818 | 247 |
PART FOUR India in transition from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century | 269 |
The beginnings of the Raj 181858 | 271 |
British Progress in North India 17501860 and in South India | 274 |
The Sepoy Revolt 1857 | 285 |
The world of the countryside 18601950 | 410 |
Jacques Weber Master of Conferences at the University of Nantes | 414 |
Trade industries cities 18601950 | 432 |
Socioreligious reforms and nationalism 18701948 | 450 |
The end of the British Empire in India | 468 |
The Partition of India | 479 |
PART | 493 |
A Game of Chequers | 497 |
specificities and similarities | 520 |
Conclusion | 539 |
Chronology | 554 |
Glossary | 564 |
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