Modern India

The Origins of an Asian Democracy
2. Revised Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-19-873113-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Short Oxford History of the Modern World

This second edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of interaction between what was indigenous to India and the many external influences brought to bear on the country by economic, political, and ideological contact with the Western world.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Brown is the author of Winds of Change (OUP, 1991), and of Men and Gods in a Changing World: Some Themes in the Religious Experience of 20th-Century Hindus and Christians (1980).