About this ebook
- New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century
- Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present
- Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in the region
- Features a new introduction, updated glossary and further reading sections, and numerous figures, photographs and fully revised maps
Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series
The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
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About the author
At the time of his death BURTON STEIN was Professorial Research Associate in History at the School of oriental and African Studies, London. He had previously held professorships at the universities of Minnesota and Hawaii. His publications included Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1980) and Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and his Vision of Empire (1989).
DAVID ARNOLD is Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Problem of Nature (Blackwell, 1996) and Gandhi (2001).
