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Sources of Indian Traditions : Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh / Dennis Dalton, Frances Pritchett, Rachel Fell McDermott, Leonard Gordon, Ainslie Embree.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Introduction to Asian civilizations.
- Introduction to Asian Civilizations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--India and South Asia--Asia.
- History.
- India--Civilization--Sources.
- India.
- Pakistan--Civilization--Sources.
- Pakistan.
- Bangladesh--Civilization--Sources.
- Bangladesh.
- India--History--Sources.
- Pakistan--History--Sources.
- Bangladesh--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1025 p.)
- Edition:
- third edition
- Other Title:
- Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their first pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- A Note on Transliteration
- Chronology
- Thematic Table of Contents
- Maps
- Chapter 1. The Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 2. The Early to Mid Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 3. The Later Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 4. Liberal Social and Political Thought in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 5. Radical Politics and Cultural Criticism, 1880-1914
- Chapter 6. Mahatma Gandhi and Responses
- Chapter 7. To Independence and Partition
- Chapter 8. Issues in Post-Independence India
- Chapter 9. Pakistan, 1947 and after
- Chapter 10. Bangladesh
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780231510929
- 0231510926
- OCLC:
- 984686763
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