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100	1		_aRobb, Peter _q(Peter G.)
245	1	2	_aA history of India / _cPeter Robb.
260			_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; _aNew York : _bPalgrave, _c2002.
300			_axiii, 344 p. : _c24 cm.
440		0	_aPalgrave essential histories
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Region and Civilization 1 -- India and its history - Rule - Region and unity - -- Belief- Customs: the problem of caste - Islam and -- Indian plurality - Environment, technology and -- socio-economic change -- 2 Early India 27 -- Cultures and peoples - Land - Social order - -- Communities - Kingship - Invasions and empires - -- Culture and its transmission - Production (slaves, rice -- and bankers) - Empires, religions and regions -- 3 Mediaeval India 55 -- Regionalism - Empires: the Delhi sultans - Empires: -- Vijayanagara - Statecraft - Kings and sultans - -- Lords, officials and localities - Culture and belief- -- Production and society - Region versus empire -- 4 Early Modern India I: Mughals and Marathas 81 -- The Mughals - Mughal rule - Early modern society -- and economy - Eighteenth-century politics - -- Merchants and states - Rival economies on the eve -- of conquest - Administration, 1580-1765: some -- comparisons -- 5 Early Modern India II: Company Raj 116 -- The East India Company in Madras and Calcutta - -- The Company's rise to power - Revenue settlements -- under the Company - Transitions, 1770s to 1860s: -- trade - Law - Education - Features of Company -- rule - Some early modern Indian responses -- 6 Modem India I: Government 148 -- Modern government - Councils and departments - -- Financial problems - Benevolence and intervention - -- Policy goals: Britain and India - Political policies -- under colonialism - Decolonization -- 7 Modern India II: Politics 177 -- Modern politics - The Indian National Congress - -- Political Islam - Popular protest - Popular -- nationalism - Communal separatism - Partition - -- Community and class - The aftermath of colonialism - -- Roads to independence and to modern politics -- 8 Modern India III: Society 218 -- Categorizations - New environments: Calcutta - -- Caste and class - Low-caste movements - Islam - -- Hindu and Sikh religious movements - Women - -- The British raj and after -- 9 Modern India IV: Economy 246 -- Decline and European dominance - Values, -- de-industrialization, dualism, economic decline - -- Agriculture - Rural labour regimes - The 'landless' - -- The 'landed' - Land control - The use of credit - -- Access to the market - Purchasing power - -- Differentiation - Food and health - Colonial legacies -- 10 Epilogue: After Modernity? 296 -- Caste, community and nation - A Hindu India? - -- Transitions and prospects.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2001058772.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2001058772.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001058772.html
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