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Blackwell History of the World
A History of India
This history provides an original, succinct but sustained narrative of the development of Indian society, culture and polity from 7000 BC to the present.
Themes explored
The interactions and tensions between cultures and politics, communities and states, and the region and the outside world
Findings of recent research on the range of Indian history and pre-history
The nature of pre-modern as well as contemporary politics
Origins and consequences of the Mughal and British conquests
The link between contemporary problems - such as the role of women, poverty and religions nationalism - and India's rich and varied history.
Themes explored
The interactions and tensions between cultures and politics, communities and states, and the region and the outside world
Findings of recent research on the range of Indian history and pre-history
The nature of pre-modern as well as contemporary politics
Origins and consequences of the Mughal and British conquests
The link between contemporary problems - such as the role of women, poverty and religions nationalism - and India's rich and varied history.
- GenresHistoryIndiaNonfiction
432 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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May 17, 2018
Only 400 pages, I thought, exactly what I'm looking for as an introduction!
But no, they're big pages. Huge. Coffee table-sized. It was like reading a broadsheet newspaper, but a heavy one. Actually (re-)injured my rotator cuff reading it. And it has about, what? 550 words per page? So it's about a 900 page regular sized book. Too detailed for an introduction of my active liking. I will remember probably only 3,5% of it.
One thing I will remember though is how obnoxious (on the issue of 'dalits') and what a creep (with women) Gandhi was, besides also being an inspirational hero I mean. Very much a complex figure, but definitely not the (semi-)saint he is sometimes seen to be.
But, yeah, comprehensive. It will probably do the job you want it to do, it's just that it might interfere with other jobs you simply won't get around to anymore.
But no, they're big pages. Huge. Coffee table-sized. It was like reading a broadsheet newspaper, but a heavy one. Actually (re-)injured my rotator cuff reading it. And it has about, what? 550 words per page? So it's about a 900 page regular sized book. Too detailed for an introduction of my active liking. I will remember probably only 3,5% of it.
One thing I will remember though is how obnoxious (on the issue of 'dalits') and what a creep (with women) Gandhi was, besides also being an inspirational hero I mean. Very much a complex figure, but definitely not the (semi-)saint he is sometimes seen to be.
But, yeah, comprehensive. It will probably do the job you want it to do, it's just that it might interfere with other jobs you simply won't get around to anymore.
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