Research Catalog

Title

India : the definitive history / D.R. SarDesai.

Author

SarDesai, D. R.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 486 p. : map; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Author D.R. SarDesai presents the history of India in its entire civilizational depth. Using an Indiacentric, as opposed to Eurocentric, approach, SarDesai covers the process of change in India through the centuries affecting different segments of the society, including the subalterns. He deals with the sweep of traditional Indian history as well as the postindependence events, judiciously balancing narrative and analysis in the conceptual framework of postcolonial and postmodernist approaches. This is the first major survey that deals with the entire Indian history along the lines of tradition and modernity instead of the old and largely inapplicable divisions of ancient, medieval, and modern timeframes.
• In adopting such a periodization, the book supports the presentation followed by most instructors in their courses on India."--Jacket.

Subject

India > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Land and the human fabric -- 2. India in prehistoric times -- 3. The Vedic Age, ca. 1200 BCE-600 BCE -- 4. Birth of two religions : Buddhism and Jainism -- 5. State and politics in ancient India -- 6. The era of consolidation : political and cultural -- 7. Early Islam : the sultanate -- 8. Peninsular kingdoms : Vijayanagar and Bahmani -- 9. The great Mughals : Babar to Aurangzeb -- 10. The rise of the Marathas and the Sikhs -- 11. The European power in India -- 12. Reaction to British rule -- 13. The Indian nationalist movement, 1850-1919 -- 14. The road to freedom through partition -- 15. The march of Indian democracy, part I -- 16. The march of Indian democracy, part II -- 17. The princely states and the Kashmir question -- 18. Toward economic freedom -- 19. India's foreign policy.

ISBN

• 9780813343525 (alk. paper)
• 0813343526 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007009972

OCLC

• 85830853
• SCSB-11376191

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library