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From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India

More than a survey, and much more than a thematically arranged narrative, this book is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It maps a wide and often complicated terrain of historical happenings, their main players in groups and as individuals, and contexts that enable us to see the formation of a nation through documents of resistance and struggle, assimilation and rejection.

Subject
history
Themes
politics
Setting
1940s19th century20th centuryindiasouth asia
Audience
adult

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