224 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Independent India is an exploration of India’s national history from independence in 1947 to the end of the twentieth century. Wendy Singer charts the rapid development of this emerging world power by following a series of different narratives crucial to the history of post-independence India: national integrations, the ongoing development of arts and culture, social movements, and political... Read more
Introduction. Chapter One — Implementing a Secular State. Chapter Two — Consolidating the Nation. Chapter Three — Modernism, Government, and the Arts. Chapter Four — Green and Other Revolutions. Chapter Five — Democratic Watersheds. Chapter Six — Women, Men and the Challenges of the 1980s and 90s. Conclusion. Documents.
Biography
Wendy Singer is the Roy T. Wortman Professor of History at Kenyon College. Her research focuses on the social and cultural histories of politics and political movements in India. She is author, most recently, of A Constituency Suitable for Ladies and other Social Histories of Indian Elections.
