A history of modern South Asia : politics, states, diasporas / Ian Talbot.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016Description: vii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780300196948 (paperback)Other title: Modern South AsiaSubject(s): Regionalism -- South Asia -- History | Social change -- South Asia -- History | South Asians -- Migrations -- History | South Asia -- History | India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 | India -- History -- 1947- | Pakistan -- History | Bangladesh -- History | South Asia -- Politics and government | South Asia -- RelationsDDC classification: 950 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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Includes notes and index.
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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