Sources of Indian Traditions (Volume 2): Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an 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. This third edition now begins earlier than the first and second, featuring a new chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. The editors have added material on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and include different perspectives on and approaches to Partition and its aftermath. They expand their portrait of post-1947 India and Pakistan and add perspectives on Bangladesh. The collection continues to be divided thematically, with 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. A phenomenal text, Sources of Indian Traditions is more indispensable than ever for courses in philosophy, religion, literature, and intellectual and cultural history. Sources of Indian Tradition 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 Indias 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. Table of Contents......Page 6 Preface to the Third Edition......Page 26 Acknowledgments......Page 30 A Note on Transliteration......Page 32 Chronology......Page 34 Thematic Table of Contents......Page 42 Map......Page 61 1. The Eighteenth Century: Ferment and Change......Page 62 2. The Early to Mid Nineteenth Century: Debates Over Reform and Challenge to Empire......Page 118 3. The Later Nineteenth Century: Leaders of Reform and Revival......Page 181 4. Liberal Social and Political Thought in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Moderates......Page 244 5. Radical Politics and Cultural Criticism, 1880–1914: The Extremists......Page 311 6. Mahatma Gandhi and Responses......Page 399 7. To Independence and Partition......Page 514 8. Issues in Post-Independence India......Page 652 9. Pakistan, 1947–2007: The Struggle for National Identity......Page 811 10. Bangladesh: Independence and Controversies Over the Fruits of Freedom......Page 894 Notes......Page 960 Bibliography......Page 970 Credits......Page 986 Index......Page 992 For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their first pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an 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