Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Sources of Indian Traditions is an indispensable and essential selection of primary readings on the social intellectual and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company British colonization the struggle for liberation the partition of 1947 and the creation of Pakistan Bangladesh and contemporary India.Divided thematically it begins with a chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. Nineteenth-century debates over social reform featuring the leaders of reform and revival movements follow. Chapters on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and different perspectives on and approaches to partition precede a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution the rise of nationalism the influence of Western thought the conflict in Kashmir nuclear proliferation minority religions secularism and the role of the Indian political left. The last two sections portray Pakistan and its struggle for national identity and Bangladesh and the controversies over the fruits of freedom. Review This is book which gives u in depth knowledge of modern and medieval India thought provoking book which gives a deep sense of condition of women on medival India and the work done by reformers especially sati system and widow remarriage. I am currently reading it give further information after completing it. --By zahoor On 24 September 2015 About the Author Rachel Fell McDermott is professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College.Leonard A. Gordon is professor of history emeritus of the City University of New York.Ainslie T. Embree is professor of history emeritus of Columbia University. Since his retirement he has taught at Brown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.Frances W. Pritchett is professor emerita of modern Indic languages in the department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University.Dennis Dalton is professor emeritus of political science at Barnard College.