"Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region's colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world"--Publisher description.

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Ian Talbot

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Brandywine River Museum

Mariners' Museum, The

United States, United States of America

1, 2016

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Cover 1
Contents 6
List of Illustrations 10
Acknowledgments 12
Maps 14
Introduction 20
Part I 30
ONE: Borders and Boundaries 32
TWO: Land, Society, Environment 51
THREE: The South Asian Diasporas 66
Part II 82
FOUR: British Rule: The First Phase 84
FIVE: The “High Noon” of Empire 99
SIX: Indians and the Raj 117
Part III 134
SEVEN: The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Anticolonial Struggle 136
EIGHT: Independence with Partition 149
Part IV 166
NINE: Nehru and the “New” India 168
TEN: Pakistan’s Failure in Democratic Consolidation 183
Part V 198
ELEVEN: Challenges to Nehruvian India 200
TWELVE: Pakistan’s National Crisis and the Birth of Bangladesh 215
THIRTEEN: Bangladesh Since Independence 229
FOURTEEN: Pakistan Since 1971 245
FIFTEEN: India Shining 261
SIXTEEN: The Contemporary International Relations of South Asia 273
Chronology 290
Notes 298
Glossary 336
Bibliography 338
Illustration Credits 350
Index 352
A 352
B 352
C 353
D 353
E 353
F 354
G 354
H 354
I 354
J 355
K 355
L 355
M 355
N 355
O 356
P 356
Q 356
R 356
S 357
T 357
U 357
V 357
W 357
Y 357
Z 357

<div>Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region’s colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world.</div>

2025-10-27