Patrick Peebles

Voices of South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An ideal supplement for any course treating the history or culture of South Asia, this collection offers a cross-section of South Asia's ancient and modern classics of thought and expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317452478
• Artikelnr.: 42188290

Autorenporträt

Patrick Peebles is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where he taught courses on Asian history. He is a specialist on the modern history of Sri Lanka. In 2008-2009, he carried out research in Sri Lanka under a grant from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies for a book on the transformation of the colony from a military outpost to a plantation economy in the period from 1833 to 1850. In the fall of 2009, he taught in London in the Missouri London Program. His most recent research and book project is his microhistory of the East India Company from 1680 to 1700. He is a contributor to a number of encyclopedias and dictionaries on South Asia, and his books include History of Sri Lanka (2006), Plantation Tamils of Ceylon (2001), Social Change in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (1995), and Classics of Eastern Thought (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Vedic Hymns
Chapter 2 Sermon at the Deer Park, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
Chapter 3 Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 4 Arthasastra, Kautilya
Chapter 5 Poems of Love and War
Chapter 6 Mah?vamsa
Chapter 7 The Perfect Bride, Dandin
Chapter 8 Gitagovinda, Jayadeva
Chapter 9 Songs of Kabir
Chapter 10 Sacred Writings of the Sikhs
Chapter 11 Akbar Nama, Abu-? Fazl
Chapter 12 Hanuman Chalisa
Chapter 13 On the Burning of Widows, Ram Mohan Roy
Chapter 14 Govinda Samanta, Lal Behari Day
Chapter 15 Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore
Chapter 16 Hind Swaraj, Mohandas K. Gandhi
Chapter 17 Muna and Madan, Lakshmiprasad Devkota
Chapter 18 What Is India?, Jawaharlal Nehru
Chapter 19 Waiting for the Mahatma, R.K. Narayan
Chapter 20 All Is Burning, Jean Arasanayagam