India and South Asia a short history
"With coverage not only of India, but also of Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, this book surveys nearly 5000 years, from the early settlers of pre-history to the Tamil Tiger conflicts and the overseas migration of modern South Asians. Particular emphasis is placed on the last 200 year...
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Oxford :
Oneworld
[2002]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991005406799706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Inventing Ancient Civilization
- Land and water
- Open geography
- Prehistoric societies
- Ancient transformation
- Inventing empire
- Inventing civilization
- Aryavarta and imperial Bharat
- Imperial regions
- Medieval transitions
- 2. Changing Medieval Territories
- A medieval epoch
- Early medievalism
- Spiritual powers
- Geographies of religion
- Making Hindu societies
- The rise of the warriors
- A medieval transition
- Mobility and cultural mixing
- Urban growth
- Expanding commercialism
- Emerging identities
- Medieval empire, modern threshold
- Indo-Persian imperial society
- Forming ethnicity
- 3. Early Modern Regions
- Ethnic territory
- Family and patriarchy
- Inverting the map
- Eighteenth-century territorialism
- Europeans on the coast
- British imperialism
- 4. Making Modern Societies
- Organizing empire
- Imperial capitalism
- National economy and world economy
- Modern imperial society
- Agrarian societies and imperial entitlements
- 5. Origins of Nationality
- Inventing native society
- Language and authority
- India in Calcutta
- Shaking the empire
- Activism, identity, and nationality
- 6. Creating Nations
- A new twentieth-century landscape
- An overview of empire's end: 1919-47
- The invention of constitutional identities in the 1920s
- The distinctiveness of Bengal and Punjab
- The reconstitution of nationalities: 1931-47
- Independence and partition
- Forging national unity
- 7. National Environments
- Buddhist reformers, exiles, rules, and majoritarians
- Christian communities, reformers, minorities, and targets
- Sikh electorate, religion, rights, and territory
- Muslim societies, politics, minorities, and nationality
- Hindu societies, movements, politics, and Hindutva
- Country Profiles
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- India
- Maldives
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka.
