In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characteriz

India has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet many people know relatively little about the economic, soc

The advent of the Portuguese - The first Europeans to land in India who managed to carve out enclaves of power - showed up the chaotic situation in this vast la