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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 April 2011
      26 February 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511803239
      9780521009126
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803239
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 272 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Twentieth Century Regional History
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    The revised edition of Robert Stern's book brings India's story up to date. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yet central to the author's argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems and its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. In a journey through its family households and villages, the author explains its long-lived and little understood caste and class systems, its venerable faiths and extraordinary ethnic diversity, its history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism and its post-Independence career as a major agricultural and industrial nation. While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.

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    Reviews of the first edition:‘This small volume contains some of the most intelligent writing on contemporary India that one is likely to encounter … Responsible for this success … is a sustained narrative of the ‘bourgeois revolution’ that (Stern) sees going on, and also an engaging register of language and argument.’

    Burton Stein Source: South Asia Research

    ‘The considerable achievement of this book is to explain so much so clearly and so briefly.’

    R. K. Newman Source: International Affairs

    ‘… a florid and highly readable account … addressing the non-specialist reader interested in South Asia, the book casts a cheerful light upon the variegated fabric of India's social institutions and traces the recent history of their evolution … this book is an ideal introduction for anyone seeking to understand 'the extraordinary emergence of India as a lively, genuine and stable parliamentary democracy … despite the ravages of time and circumstance … a brilliant achievement indeed. A most enjoyable read.'

    Source: The Round Table

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