India

Utilizing a non-western, indigenous approach to the subject, award-winning author DR SarDesai presents the definitive history of India in all its aspects, from tradition to modernity. For several years now, India has been receiving considerable global attention thanks to its spectacular economic gro [...]
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Utilizing a non-western, indigenous approach to the subject, award-winning author DR SarDesai presents the definitive history of India in all its aspects, from tradition to modernity. For several years now, India has been receiving considerable global attention thanks to its spectacular economic growth at over seven percent for a decade. Along with China, these two ancient civilizations, responsible for one-third of the human race, are poised to become the third and fourth largest economies in the world. With apprehensions about China's growing military strength, democratic India is regarded by the West as a likely counterbalance to the Communist giant. DR SarDesai presents the history of India in its entire civilizational depth. Using an Indiocentric approach (as opposed to the Anglocentric or Eurocentric) the book covers the process of change in India through the centuries affecting different segments of the society, including the subalterns. He deals with the sweep of traditional Indian history as well as with the post-independence events, judicially balancing narrative and analysis in the conceptual framework of post-colonial and post-modernist approaches.This is the first major survey which deals with the entire Indian history along the lines of tradition and modernity instead of the old and largely inapplicable divisions of ancient, medieval and modern time frames. In adopting such a periodization, the book supports what is followed by most instructors in their courses about India.