India & Cambridge - Cambridge University Press India

HISTORYtechnical for non-specialists, this volume is intended for astudent and general market.Susan Bayly is a Lecturer at the Department of SocialAnthropology, University of Cambridge.12 half-tones 3 maps9780521678612 440pp PB ` 595.00(The New Cambridge History of India)A Concise History ofModern India2nd EditionBarbara D. Metcalf &Thomas R. MetcalfIn a second edition of theirsuccessful Concise History ofModern India, Barbara Metcalf andThomas Metcalf explore India’smodern history afresh and updatethe events of the last decade.These include the takeover ofCongress from the seeminglyentrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India’s hugeadvances in technology and the country’s new role as amajor player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals,through the British Empire, and into Independence, thecountry has been transformed by its institutional structures.It is these institutions which have helped bring about thesocial, cultural and economic changes that have taken placeover the last half century and paved the way for the modernsuccess story. Despite these advances, poverty, socialinequality and religious division still fester.Barbara D. Metcalf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Thomas R. Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley.52 half-tones 4 maps9780521733106 372pp PB ` 445.00Remembering Partition:Violence, Nationalism andHistory in IndiaGyanendra PandeyGyan Pandey’s latest book is acompelling and, at times,harrowing examination of theviolence that marked the Partitionof India in 1947, and how thepreceding events have beendocumented. In the process, theauthor provides a critique ofhistory-writing and nationalistmyth-making. He also investigates how local forms ofcommunity are constituted by the way in which violentevents are remembered and written about.Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology andHistory at John Hopkins University.9788175961098 232pp PB ` 250.00Changing India: BourgeoisRevolution on theSubcontinent2nd EditionRobert W. SternThe revised edition of RobertStern’s book brings India’s storyup-to-date. Since its originalpublication in 1993, much hasaltered and yet central to theauthor’s argument remains hisbelief in the remarkable continuityand vitality of India’s social systemsand its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful,readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India.While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantlytransforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remainsthe largest and most enduring democracy in thedeveloping world.Robert W. Stern has written extensively on South Asia. Hispublications include Democracy and Dictatorship in SouthAsia: Dominant Classes and Political Outcomes in India,Pakistan and Bangladesh (2000).9780521540810 320pp PB ` 495.00Hindu Nationalism and theLanguage of Politics in LateColonial IndiaWilliam GouldWilliam Gould explores what isarguably one of the most importantand controversial themes intwentieth-century Indian historyand politics: the nature of Hindunationalism as an ideology andpolitical language. Rather thanconcentrating on the maininstitutions of the Hindu Right inIndia as other studies have done, the author uses a variety ofhistorical sources to analyse how Hindu nationalismaffected the supposedly secularist Congress in the key stateof Uttar Pradesh. The author offers an alternativeassessment of how these languages and ideologiestransformed the relationship between Congress and northIndian Muslims.William Gould is Lecturer in Indian History at the Universityof Leeds.9788175962514 320pp HB ` 795.00order online at www.cambridgeindia.org17