This new edition of Burton Stein’s classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present.
* New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century
* Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present
* Expands coverage of India’s internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in the region
* Features a new introduction, updated glossary and further reading sections, and numerous figures, photographs and fully revised maps
Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series
The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations viii
List of Maps x
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Introduction to Burton Stein’s A History of India xiv
Acknowledgements to First Edition xxii
Part I 1
1 Introduction 7
The Physical Setting 8
The Social Setting 14
Resituating Communities and States 21
Historian’s Choice 35
Part II Ancient India 37
Chronology 38
2 Ancient Days 39
The Pre-formation of Indian Civilization 39
Vedic Culture 46
Political and Religious Developments 53
Religion in the Later Vedic Period 59
The Nature of the Mauryan Kingdom 68
Towards the Classical Pattern 75
Early Hinduism 79
Developments in the South 84
The Age of the Early Empires 85
The Gupta Classical Pattern 90
The Classical Pattern Elaborated and Extended: the South 96
Part III Medieval and Early Modern India 103
Chronology 104
3 Medieval India 105
Introduction 105
Medieval Kingdoms 110
The Role of the Southern Kingdoms 124
The Advent of Islam 129
The Indian Development of Islam 138
The Deccan and the South 146
Vijayanagara 147
States and Communities 150
4 Early Modern India 155
Introduction 155
The Mughal Empire 159
The Wars of the Mughal Succession 171
The Last Act of the Mughals 179
The Maratha Moment 185
The Shadow of Europe 193
5 The East India Company 196
Introduction 196
The Joint Trajectory of Development 201
The Company Perpetuates the Past 211
The Emergence of a New Order 215
Mutiny and Revolt 222
Late Company Rule 223
Part IV Contemporary South Asia 225
Chronology 226
6 The Crown Replaces the Company 227
The Contemporary State 227
After the Mutiny 229
The Rule of the Raj 239
The Political Economy of the Late Nineteenth Century 247
Cultural Change, Education and New Classes 253
The Politicization of Class, Caste and Gender 262
7 Towards Freedom 274
Two Types of Nationalism 274
Early Congress and Its Adversaries 277
War, Sacrifice and Mass Political Mobilization 287
Imperialism’s Paradoxical Enemy 289
The First Campaigns 294
Between Campaigns 299
Conditions for a New Politics 306
8 Gandhi’s Triumph 308
Civil Disobedience 308
The Left in Politics 325
The Right Prevails 332
War and the Last Act Begins 338
The Bitter Victory of Partition 348
9 New States, Old Nations 357
Territorial Passage 357
The Promises of Independence 358
Pakistan in Parallel 368
The Green Revolution: Promise of Plenty 376
Environmental Problems, Old and New 377
The Condition of Women: Broken Promises 384
Communal Politics: Shattered Pluralism 388
India and the World 393
Promises Kept, Promises Broken 396
10 Another India 398
The Nehruvian Consensus 399
Eroding Consensus 402
Failure on the Left 406
Hindu Nationalism 409
Rise of the Hindu Right 410
Economic Liberalization 413
The Indian State 417
Notes 421
Glossary of Non-English Terms 425
Further Reading 430
Index 435
Over de auteur
At the time of his death BURTON STEIN was Professorial Research Associate in History at the School of oriental and African Studies, London. He had previously held professorships at the universities of Minnesota and Hawaii. His publications included Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1980) and Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and his Vision of Empire (1989).
DAVID ARNOLD is Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Problem of Nature (Blackwell, 1996) and Gandhi (2001).
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