Modern India - The Origins of an Asian Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Judith Brown is the author of Winds of Change (OUP, 1991), and of Men and Gods in a Changing World: Some Themes in the Religious Experience of 20th-Century Hindus and Christians (1980). Klappentext This second edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of interaction between what was indigenous to India and the many external influences brought to bear on the country by economic, political, and ideological contact with the Western world. Zusammenfassung `the most readable, helpful, learned account now available', Times Literary Supplement The Indian subcontinent - land, people, power; the consolidation of dominion - illusion and reality; the dilemmas of dominion; war and the search for a new order; a critical decade - India - empire or nation?; India in the 1940s - a great divide?; India's democratic experience.

Product details

• Authors: BROWN, Judith M. Brown, Judith M. (Beit Professor of Commonwealth H Brown, Judith M. (Beit Professor of Commonwealth History Brown
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.1994
• EAN: 9780198731139
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873113-9
• No. of pages: 478
• Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World; Short Oxford History of the Mo; Short Oxford History of the Modern World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)