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This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present.
The book offers a comprehensive account of Indian history. It also links contemporary issues-including poverty, religious nationalism, and the role of women--to India's rich and varied history and explores the tensions throughout Indian history ...
This wide-ranging book offers a succinct and engaging narrative of the history of the Indian subcontinent, tracing the development of its society, culture and polity from 7000 BC to the present. Incorporating the accumulated findings of recent research—including the author’s own work on the history of South India—the book considers the complex patterns of pre-modern as well as contemporary politics, examines the origins and consequences of the Mughal and ...
The essays of this volume were first presented to a conference of South Indian specialists convened at the University of Wisconsin on 7-9 April 1970. This was the second such conference of the Society for South Indian Studies, the first having met at the University of Texas on 5-7 December 1968, from which came a valuable set of essays entitled Symposium on Dravidian Civilization (1971), edited by Andree F. Sjoberg. Robert E. Frykenberg, Department of History, ...
