Ainslie Embree
Canadian indologist and historian
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- PhD History Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ainslie Thomas Embree was a Canadian Indologist and historian. He was considered a leading scholar of modern Indian history and played a seminal role in the introduction of South Asian studies into US college and secondary education curricula. In addition to his academic work, Embree made significant contributions to peace efforts between India and Pakistan as a member of the Kashmir Study Group and the Council on Foreign Relations, and acted as a consultant to the US diplomatic and intelligence communities. He has been described as a "tireless advocate for greater understanding between the US and India" who was also known for his seminal insights into the complex relationship of religion and nationalism that have influenced religious scholarship in this country.
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Published Works
- Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. (1965) (122)
- Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India (1977) (66)
- Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon (1962) (46)
- Charles Grant and British rule in India (1962) (42)
- Gandhi in South Africa : British imperialism and the Indian question, 1860-1914 (1972) (35)
- The Edicts of Asoka (1961) (32)
- The Hindu tradition (1966) (30)
- Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915–1922 (1972) (30)
- Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (2018) (30)
- Hindu Epics, Myths and Legends in Popular Illustrations (1978) (21)
- Unitarians and India: A Study in Encounter and Response (1977) (20)
- India in 1857: The Revolt Against Foreign Rule (1963) (20)
- British Baptist Missionaries in India, 1793-1837. (1968) (18)
- Imagining India: Essays on Indian History (1989) (16)
- Pakistan's western borderlands : The transformation of a political order (1979) (15)
- Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845–1875 (1994) (12)
- Suggested Resources for MAPS to be used in conjuction with Asia In Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching (1995) (12)
- The Last Empire: Photography In British India, 1855-1911 (1978) (12)
- Encyclopedia of Asian History. (1987) (11)
- The Evolution of India and Pakistan, 1858–1947. Selected Documents . Edited by C. H. Philips with the co-operation of Professor H. L. Singh and Dr. B. N. Pandey. London: Oxford University Press, 1962. xxi, 786. Glossary. 90s. (1963) (10)
- Muslim women of the British Punjab : from seclusion to politics (2000) (10)
- Indian Search For National Identity (1972) (9)
- American Missionaries and Hinduism. (1969) (9)
- Renaissance in Bengal Quests and Confrontations, 1800-1860 (1972) (8)
- Philosophy and Culture, East and West@@@Philosophy and Culture, East and West: East-West Philosophy in Practical Perspective. (1962) (8)
- Utopias in conflict (1990) (8)
- India and World Civilization. (1970) (8)
- India's Worlds and U.S. Scholars, 1947-1997 (1998) (7)
- India and Afghanistan, 1876-1907 : a study in diplomatic relations (1965) (7)
- Statehood in South Asia (1997) (6)
- Religion in public space: Two centuries of a problem in governance in modern India (2002) (5)
- India and the Persian Gulf Region 1858–1907. A Study in British Imperial Policy . By Ravinder Kumar. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1966. 259 pp. Bibliography, Index. $10.75. (1967) (5)
- A Dictionary of Modern Indian History 1707-1947 (1987) (4)
- Reform and Regeneration in Bengal, 1774-1823 (1970) (4)
- Approaches to Asian civilizations (1965) (4)
- Dialogue between a Theist and an Idolater: an 1820 Tract Probably by Rammohun Roy . Edited by Stephen N. Hay. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1963. 200. Bengali and English texts, Notes, Glossary, Index. Rs.15.00. (1966) (3)
- Life at Court: Art for India's Rulers, 16Th-19th Centuries (1985) (3)
- Sources of indian traditions: modern india, pakistan, and bangladesh (2019) (2)
- The Golden Oriole (1987) (2)
- Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India-China-Tibet-Japan. (1966) (2)
- Curfew on Olympus . By Lt.-Gen. G. N. Molesworth. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1965. viii, 296. Appendix, Index. $10.25. (1966) (2)
- 6 Who Speaks for India? The Role of Civil Society in Defining Indian Nationalism (2005) (2)
- Presidential Address: The Tradition of Mission—Asian Studies in the United States, 1783 and 1983 (1983) (2)
- Hinduism in Thai Life (1980) (2)
- India-A Plural Society. (1972) (1)
- Engish Education and the Origins of Indian Nationalism . By Bruce Tiebout McCully. (Reprinted.) Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1966. 418 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. $6.00. (1968) (1)
- Reviews:The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 3, part 1, Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India Kenneth W. Jones (1991) (1)
- A guide to paperbacks on Asia (1964) (1)
- British India's Northern Frontiers (1965) (1)
- A Guide to Oriental classics (1967) (1)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS Indian materials as well as for the more mature scholar (2009) (0)
- Book Review:The Indian Struggle, 1920-1942 Subhas Chandra Bose (1965) (0)
- Wayne Ayres Wilcox (1932–1974) (1974) (0)
- Comment: General Theories and General Education (1964) (0)
- Religion and Pilgrim Tax Under the Company Raj. (1989) (0)
- R. J. Moore. The Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917–1940. New York: Oxford University Press. 1974. Pp. xii, 334. $9.00 (1976) (0)
- I. Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment@@@II. Muslim Civilization in India (1965) (0)
- Chapter 10. Bangladesh Independence and Controversies Over the Fruits of Freedom (2014) (0)
- Chapter 1. The Eighteenth Century Ferment and Change (2014) (0)
- Christian Communities in South Asia (2006) (0)
- Historians and Historiography in Modern India. Edited By S. P. Sen. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1973. xxix, 464 pp. Rs. 80.00; $24.00 (1977) (0)
- Robert A. Huttenback. Gandhi in South Africa: British Imperialism and the Indian Question, 1860–1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1971. Pp. ix, 368. $9.75 (1972) (0)
- British Policy in India, 1858–1905 . By S. Gopal. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965. xii, 423. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.50. (1966) (0)
- Inde : nation et traditions (1964) (0)
- The Discourse and Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto . By Anwar H. Syed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. xvi, 269 pp. $49.95. (1993) (0)
- New India, 1885: British Official Policy and the Emergence of the Indian National Congress (1972) (0)
- Chapter 7. To Independence and Partition (2014) (0)
- A Review of: “Identity and Religion: Foundations of anti-Islamism in India” (2008) (0)
- Nineteenth Century Bengal: Aspects of Social History. A Study in Some New Pressures on Society and in Relation Between Tradition and Change (1966) (0)
- Chapter 2. The Early to Mid Nineteenth Century Debates Over Reform and Challenge to Empire (2014) (0)
- Trade and Empire in Western India, 1784–1806. By Pamela Nightingale. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 264. $11.50 (1970) (0)
- THE UNDERSTANDING OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT IN WESTERN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT (1978) (0)
- Rabindranath Tagore. A Biography . By Krishna Kripalani. New York: Grove Press, 1962. 147. Bibliography, Index. $8.75. - Social Thinking of Rabindranath Tagore . By Sasadhar Sinha. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1962. xiv, 198. Index. $6.75. (1963) (0)
- Indian Literature.@@@A Guide to Oriental Classics.@@@The Mahabharata: An English version based on selected verses.@@@The Bhagavad Gita.@@@The Panchattra.@@@Ananga Ranga.@@@A Bend in the Ganges. (1965) (0)
- Chapter 6. Mahatma Gandhi and Responses (2014) (0)
- Muslim Civilization in India (1965) (0)
- Frontiers and the Mountain Wall, 1833–57 (2020) (0)
- Chapter 5. Radical Politics and Cultural Criticism, 1880–1914 The Extremists (2014) (0)
- Introduction: Defining the Borders of South Asian States (2020) (0)
- The encyclopedia of religion (1989) (0)
- European understanding of India (1974) (0)
- Afterword (2020) (0)
- The Maharajahs.@@@The Great Moghuls. (1972) (0)
- Chapter 8. Issues in Post-Independence India (2014) (0)
- Clive of India: A Political and Psychological Essay. By Nirad C. Chaudhuri. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. vii, 446 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index. £7.50 (1978) (0)
- Religion, Nationalism, Violence, and Leadership: The South Asian Context (2014) (0)
- Occidentalism in India (1996) (0)
- Asia : a guide to paperbacks (1968) (0)
- Frontiers and Borders (2020) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Later Nineteenth Century Leaders of Reform and Revival (2014) (0)
- Afterword: The Continuing Problem of Borders (2020) (0)
- The End of the Multi-State System, 1798–1833 (2020) (0)
- Chapter 4. Liberal Social and Political Thought in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century The Moderates (2014) (0)
- Nicholas Tarling. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950 . New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 488. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-63261-7. (2000) (0)
- Cox Jeffrey. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 357. $55.00. ISBN 0-8047-4318-5. (2004) (0)
- Asia: A Guide to Paperbacks. Revised Edition. (1968) (0)
- Note on Transliteration (2012) (0)
- HERMANN KULKE / DIETMAR ROTHERMUND: A History of India (1993) (0)
- Book Review:The Arya Samaj as a Fundamentalist Movement: A Study in Comparative Fundamentalism J. E. Llewellyn (1996) (0)
- The Representation of Past in the Pre-colonial Society of India (2010) (0)
- Thematic Table of Contents (2014) (0)
- Hing Lee Kam. The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760-1824. (South-East Asian Historical Monographs.) Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 349. $55.00. ISBN 967-55-3055-7. (1996) (0)
- Religion and Politics (2019) (0)
- Chapter 9. Pakistan, 1947 and after The Struggle for National Identity (2014) (0)
- Suggested Resources for Maps to use in conjunction with Asia in Western and World History (2000) (0)
- British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization 1773–1835 . By David Kopf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. xii, 324 pp. Tables, Index. $8.50. (1970) (0)
- Frontiers into Borders (2020) (0)
- The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi. By Robert Payne. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. 1969. Pp. 703. $12.95.) (1970) (0)
- Defining the Mughal Inheritance, 1757–98 (2020) (0)
- Religion, Communalism, and Security in Post-Independence India (2012) (0)
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