From Plassey to Partition - A History of Modern India

Author: Sekhar BandyopadhyayPublisher: Orient LongmanYear: 2010Language: EnglishPages: 523ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125025960 DescriptionMore than a survey, and much more than a thematically arranged narrative, From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It maps a wide and often complicated terrain of historical happenings, their main players in groups and as individuals, and contexts that enable us to see the formation of a nation through documents of resistance and struggle, assimilation and rejection. This story of India's nationhood and political coming-of-age is rich in empirical details and accessible interpretation of facts therein. In its eight major divisions covering about two hundred years of political and socio-economic turbulence, the author retraces the steps of our nationalist longings. Of particular interest to the contemporary reader will be sections such as Early Nationalism: Discontent and Dissension, Many Voices