The Hindu Tradition: Readings in Oriental Thought - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394717023 ISBN 13: 9780394717029

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1972

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Ainslie Thomas Embree was born in Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Columbia University. He taught Indian history at Columbia University from 1958 to 1969, and was also professor of history at Duke University. He was the President of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Embree retired in 1991. Mr. Embree is the author of Charles Grant and British Rule in India and India's Search for National Identity. He has been coeditor of several books, including Approaches to Asian Civilizations, Guide to Oriental Classics, and The Development of Civilization. With S. M. Ikram, Mr. Embree has written Muslim Civilization in India.

WM. Theodore de Bary, Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies at Columbia University, is Provost Emeritus of that university. From 1969-70 he was president of the Association for Asian Studies. He is editor and coauthor of the three-volume Sources of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Tradition; Approaches to Asian Civilization; A Guide to Oriental Classics; and Self and Society in Ming Thought.

Synopsis:

A chronological arrangement of selected Hindu religious, literary, and philosophical works which illustrate the ideals and values of Indian life since 1000 B.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0394717023
• ISBN 13: 9780394717029
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Embree Ainslie T., De Bary William Theodore