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Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy | 
 enlarge | Author: Sugata Bose
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 386142
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.4
ISBN: 0415169526
Dewey Decimal Number: 954
EAN: 9780415169523
ASIN: 0415169526
Publication Date: March 2, 1998
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Product Description
The South Asian subcontinent is home to nearly a billion people, just over 23 per cent of humanity, and has been the site of fierce historical contestation. It is a panoply of languages and religions with a rich and complex history and culture. This text is a social, economic, political and cultural history of South Asia from around 1700 to the present. It debates and challenges the controversial issues in the region's history, such as nationality, identity, and state-building. In the 50 years since Indian independence and partition in 1947, political and ideational contests over the wealth, history and idea of India have intensified both within and outside the area. Recent economic reforms in India and Pakistan have turned the region into the largest emerging market after China. The text is a work of synthesis and interpretation which covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan from an interdisciplinary perspective. The authors offer an understanding of the sophisticated historiography of this startegically and economically significant part of the world.
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 Disappointing January 13, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book does not provide nearly enough information to truly understand the complexities of the situations. It presents a somewhat biased view, as one author is Pakistani and the other is a member of Subhas Chandra Bose's family (and so naturally has less than glowing praise for the Congress leadership at the time of independence). The book is often repetitive, making the same points in multiple chapters. It attempts to sound more intellectual than it really is, through the use of complicated vocabulary, while presenting a rather simplistic history of the region. Overall, a disappointing book.
 Hackneyed October 14, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book lacks originality and boldness, that is required for a post-colonial understanding of the past 300 years of Indian history.
Lacks depth December 17, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an eighth grade level account of India's history written in a high-sounding English. Also, this book assumes some familiarity by the reader with the past of India, but I think that if you already know that much, you do not need this book.
Perhaps, and only perhaps, the books suffers from mediocrity because the two authors, one of Indian and the other of Pakistani origin, had to make compromises in the emphasis they could jointly place on the aspects of modern India's history which are interesting to the younger generation. One such aspect is the causes and consequences of the partition of India, the role of three parties - the British, Indian National Congress and the Muslim League. The book seems to shy away in taking a hard and penetrating look at this. There are hardly any citations to original sources where one could look for more detail.
There are so many other good books where you can find modern Indian history covered at greater depth and width. If you have limited amount of money to spend to buy a good introductory book, then find another one.
Disappointing October 9, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will disappoint anybody with a decent knowledge of the history of India. While this book provides is a good general review of the events in the subcontinent over the last 300 years, it is not rigorous in its treatment of various events that have occured.However, the authors have admirably condensed 300 years of history in a small text and thus the book merits three stars.
 Concise--Provides new perspectives on history of South Asia March 31, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed reading this book, it is a concise and easy reading. It makes few but strong points--political economy of colonialism, freedom movement and also describes, what is known as the 'People's history' of South Asia. More focus has been given to Bengal, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. I wish there was some on more stuff on Sindh, NWFP, Nepal and so on.A must read for those who are inteested in South Asia.
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