Contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteent

-- Wendy Doniger, University of Chcago

What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-kno

Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of

Asian history.