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A History of India (Palgrave Essential Histories Series) Book

This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, and now also evaluates present-day developments and opportunities.A History of India, Second Edition• examines the relationships between politics, religious belief, social order, environment and economic change• assesses, from c. 1860, British colonialism, Indian nationalism and nation-building, popular protest movements, religious revivals, and re-inventions of caste, community and gender• discusses long-term economic development, the impact of global trade, and the origins of rural poverty• has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship, and now features a Chronology as well as a fully reworked final chapter which brings the story up to the present day and carefully considers India's prospects and new roles in the world.Centred around clearly expressed and well argued topics, issues and explanations, A History of India remains the ideal introduction for all those who wish to understand the drama and vitality of India's past, its present situation and its future challenges.Read More

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  • ASDA

    Peter Robb's clear fluent narrative explores the interplay between India's empires and regions of rule custom and belief from early times up to the present day. The new edition of this established text has been revised to incorporate the latest scholarship and now includes a fully reworked updated and extended final chapter.

  • Blackwell

    Peter Robb's clear, fluent narrative explores the interplay between India's empires and regions of rule, custom and belief, from early times up to the present day. The new edition of this established text has been revised to incorporate the latest...

  • 0230279821
  • 9780230279827
  • Professor Peter Robb
  • 21 June 2011
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
  • 2nd edition
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