About the Book: From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India
This book is now regarded as a major intervention in the historiography of
modern India, and an authoritative account of the largest anti-imperialist
movement in the world.
It traces Indias colonial encounter, her nationalist longings, and her emergence
as a sovereign, democratic republic, along with radical social transformations
over two centuries.
And this enlarged edition offers a perceptive analysis of Indias efforts towards
modernisation and democratisation since Independence.
The book addresses important historiographical questions by taking cognisance of
emergent perspectives adopted by social science scholarship over the last
twenty-five years.
The book engages