The history of India / John McLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLeod, John, 1963- author.

Series:

Greenwood histories of the modern nations

The Greenwood histories of the modern nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History.

India.

History.

India--History--1947-.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 254 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

Summary:

The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations, Every school and public library should update its resources with these engagingly written and succinct narrative histories of the world's nations covering prehistoric times through today. Based on the most recent scholarship, each history provides a chronological narrative examining the political, cultural, philosophical, and religious continuities in the featured nation's long, rich history in an exploration of how its people came to be who they are today. Each volume includes a chronological narrative history, timeline of events, biographical sketches of key figures, glossary, and bibliographic essay. Book jacket.

Contents:

The settings

The birth of India

Religion, trade, and conquest

The rise and fall of the Mughal Dynasty

A century of realignment

Indians and British rule

The struggle for independence

Building the new India

Towards a new dynasty

India transformed

Into the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781610697651

1610697650

OCLC:

881440034