MODERN SOUTH ASIA

Name: MODERN SOUTH ASIA
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SKU: 9789693509229
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HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS, ECONOMY - 3RD ED

By SUGATA BOSE , AYESHA JALAL

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Description

A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region.The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and a discussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9789693509229
Categories:
All Products, Anthropology, Culture, History, Non Fiction, South Asia Studies
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2011
Number of Pages: 259
Author:
SUGATA BOSE , AYESHA JALAL
Publisher: SANG E MEEL PUBLICATIONS
Language: English
Weight: 0.57 g

About the Author

Sugata Bose is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University Ayesha Jalal was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1956 to Hamid Jalal, a senior Pakistani civil servant, and is the grandniece of the renowned Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto. She came to New York City at the age of 14 when her father was posted at the Pakistan Mission to the United Nations.