A Concise History of Modern India, 3rd Edition

A Concise History of Modern India, by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest. The narrative focuses on the fundamentally political theme of the imaginative and institutional structures that have successively sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development, and its rich cultural life. Throughout, the authors argue that despite a powerful historiographical tradition to the contrary, no enduring meaning can be given to categories such as 'caste', 'Hindu', 'Muslim', or even 'India'.

• India before Europe
• India: Brief History of a Civilization
• Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan (Vol. 2)
• A Passage to India
• India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
• The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)
• Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Centenary Edition (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics)
• Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
• The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)
• Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition