商品簡介
While the relatively short era of British rule was important to Indian history, it "does not warrant a blow-by-blow account of each governor-general's tenure in India," notes SarDesai (Indian history, U. of California at Los Angeles) in his preface to this history of Indian society and politics. However, pre-British Indian modes of thought, social behaviors, political idioms, and religious practices continue to be relevant to present day India and he therefore devotes much of the work to discussion of the premodern period, from the Vedic age through the Mughals and the rise of the Marathas and the Sikhs. He also devotes considerable attention to the Indian nationalist movement, the experience of partition, and post-Independence. The bulk of the focus is domestic, but India's foreign policy receives some brief attention in the form of a final chapter. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
D. R. SarDesai is former Chairperson of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the first holder of the Doshi Chair in Indian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Southeast Asia: Past and Present 5th Edition (Westview Press, 2003). He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Yadunandan Center for India Studies for his caring and distinguished work in South and Southeast Asian studies.
