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Nelson Modern History: India

By | Copyright Year:2016 | ISBN-13: 9780170244121

Published:03/08/2015
India has been developed for senior secondary students of History and is part of the Nelson Modern History series. Each book in the series is based on the understanding that History is an interpretive study of the past by which students also come to better appreciate the making of the modern world. Developing understandings of the past and present in senior History extends on the skills learnt in earlier years. Students will use historical skills, including research, evaluation, synthesis, analysis and communication. They will rely on their knowledge of the historical concepts such as evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, significance, empathy, perspectives and contestability, to understand and interpret societies from the past. The activities and tasks have been written to ensure that students develop the skills and attributes required for senior History subjects.

Exploring the history of modern India as a form of national renaissance, this student book paints a broad history of South Asia. The text builds on a strong chronologically ordered narrative with extensive use of primary and secondary sources to build an understanding of the emergence of modern India from the colonial through to the 21st century. In doing so, it examines the emergence of nationalism, independence, partition, Congress rule and India as it enters the 21st century.

Series Editor, Tony Taylor is the past Director of the National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and the National Centre for History Education. From 2006 to 2010 he was a senior consultant to federal government bodies responsible for the development of Australian Curriculum History, while researching and publishing extensively in various topics in education and History.
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CONTENTS

About the series
Series editor acknowledgements
Author acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1
Now and then: a national renaissance?

CHAPTER 2
Empire and nation

CHAPTER 3
Pathways to power

CHAPTER 4
The great divide

CHAPTER 5
Congress Raj

CHAPTER 6
India in ferment

Conclusion

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Ian Copland has written extensively on modern India and Pakistan, Indian religious history and comparative colonialism. He has also lectured in History at Monash for more than 30 years. Ian is a foundation member of the South Asian Studies Association, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

FEATURES

The Nelson Modern History series is an extensive suite of full colour topic books developed for Australian senior students. Each title draws on recent scholarship, historiography and history specific pedagogy to ensure relevance and teachability. Providing flexibility for schools and students, Nelson Modern History is the up to date and relevant history education solution for senior students

The front cover of each title features a line drawing associated with the topic. Functioning as a topic starter, this iconic image is unpacked with a photograph and commentary with a link to a key individual and an illustrated timeline

The introduction to each book includes a brief overview of the topic and a handy reference sequence that includes profiles of major figures and organisations, definitions of key concepts and summaries of major documents

Each Chapter is structured around inquiry questions and includes age appropriate language, recent research in the field, diagrams, maps and illustrations, discussions of historians and schools of interpretation and biographical profiles that incorporate activities

Chapters close with a topic summary, suggestions for further reading and review activities that consolidate content knowledge and build historical skills

Each title closes with a brief summation and a set of activities that encourage students to draw on their learning and reflect on the topic as a whole.

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