Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy

by Judith M. Brown

Book Overview

A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198731132
• ISBN13: 9780198731139
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"