TY  - BOOK
AU  - Talbot,Ian
TI  - HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTH ASIA: Politics, States, Diasporas 
SN  - 9780300196948 (paperback : alkaline paper)
U1  - 320.959 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Political History Of South Asia
KW  - Social change
KW  - South Asians
KW  - South Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Migrations
KW  - India
KW  - British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - 1947-
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index
N2  - "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
ER  -