A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest. The narrative focuses on the fundamentally political theme of the imaginative and institutional structures that have successively sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development and its rich cultural life.

芭芭拉．麥卡夫

加州大學戴維斯分校歷史系教授，研究專長為東亞史以及印度與巴基斯坦的伊斯蘭文化。著有《南亞地區的伊斯蘭信仰》（Islam in South Asia in Practice），《打造北美與歐洲地區的穆斯林空間》（Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe）。

湯馬斯．麥卡夫

加州大學柏克萊分校歷史系教授，研究專長為印度殖民史與英國帝國主義。著有《英屬印度的意識形態》（Ideologies of the Raj）、《帝國連結：印度洋競技場中的印度》（Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920）。

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陳琦郁

台大社會學系畢，翻譯作品包括《寫給地球人的能源史》、《其實我沒有砍倒櫻桃樹：華盛頓傳》等書。