A History of Modern India

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A History of Modern India is written by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316165175 (ISBN 10) and 9781316165171 (ISBN 13).

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.