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HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTH ASIA : Politics, States, Diasporas / Ian Talbot.

By: Language: English Publication details: London Yale University Press 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 338ISBN:
  • 9780300196948 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Other title:
  • Modern South Asia
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.959 TAL/HI
Online resources: Scope and content: "Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region's colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world"--Publisher description.
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Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction 320.959 TAL/HI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E191903

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index.

"Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region's colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world"--Publisher description.

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