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Автор: Peter Robb
Год: 2002
Издание:
Palgrave Macmillan
Страниц: 370
ISBN: 0333691296
This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, mediaeval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible narrative analyses India's civilizations and its empires through the ages - including the Mughal Empire, the British Raj, and independent India to the present day - as they entangled with regional rule and heterodox cultures. A History of India: examines the relationships between politics, religious belief, social order (especially caste), environment and economic change; assesses, from c. 1860, British colonialism, Indian nationalism and nation-building, popular protest movements, religious revivals, and reinventions of caste, community and gender; discusses long-term economic development, the impact of global trade, and the origins of rural poverty. Centred around clearly expressed and well argued topics, issues...
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