From Plassey To Partition & After : A History Of Modern India

From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India This book is now regarded as a major intervention in the historiography of modern India, and an authoritative account of the largest anti-imperialist movement in the world. It traces Indias colonial encounter, her nationalist longings, and her emergence as a sovereign, democratic republic, along with radical social transformations over two centuries. And this enlarged edition offers a perceptive analysis of Indias efforts towards modernisation and democratisation since Independence. The book addresses important historiographical questions by taking cognizance of emergent perspectives adopted by social science scholarship over the last twenty-five years. The book engages