From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Gupta, Surojit M. | COPYRIGHT 1997 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Edited, with an introduction, by Hermann Kulke. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. x, 367. $29.95.)

This excellent volume is one of the Oxford series on themes in Indian history. Even though the recent trend of edited works in publications on South Asia is geared primarily toward scholars and students of the subcontinent, others will find much of interest since global paradigms are used in examining the scholarship and debates on the idea of the state and the proc...