India in the 21st century
By: Mira Kamdar
Series: What everyone needs to know; What everyone needs to know
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780199973590; 9780199973606
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: History
Other titles: India in the twenty-first century
Description: Mira Kamdar explores India in all its complexity--from its ancient civilization and kingdoms to its days as a British colony, and from its independence to the current moment and its challenges. Kamdar expertly navigates India's contradictions and complications, while celebrating the merging of its artistic and intellectual heritage with the Iinformation Age. This book is isdispensable to anyone seeking to understand contemporary India.--book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. How India got to the twenty-first dentury. India's civilizational legacy; title: British Raj and the road to independence; title: A new republic; title: Part II Will the twenty-first century be India's century? Society; title: Economy; title: Politics; title: Geopolotics; title: Environment.