Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) - Hardcover

Brown, Judith M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199131244 ISBN 13: 9780199131242

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Covering the last two centuries of Indian history, this book traces the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies through the process of interaction between a stable society with a rich cultural heritage, and forces emanating from the industrializing west. The foundations of this rare poliitcal phenomenon in Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her peoples, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent. The first book to incorporate the revisionist research of the 1970s, Modern India offers a new and exciting understanding of the resources, patterns, and problems of Indian political life at all levels.

About this title

About the Author

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).

Review

By far the best recent introductory account of the modern history of India * Times Higher Education Supplement *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199131244
• ISBN 13: 9780199131242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 444