Book review: Ishita Banerjee-Dube,A History of Modern India,Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal,Modern South Asia: History,Culture,Political Economy and Thomas R. Trautmann,India: A Brief History of a Civilization

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Ishita Banerjee-Dube, A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 486 pp.; Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, Third Edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014, 274 pp.; and Thomas R. Trautmann, India: A Brief History of a Civilization, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011, 242 pp.