Voices of South Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present / Edition 1

by Patrick Peebles

Overview

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. It includes a unique mix of poetry, novels, drama, and political and philosophical treatises, each accompanied by a detailed introductory essay on the specific historical context, the author, and the work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765620729
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/15/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Map of South Asia ix

Vedic Hymns 3

Sermon at the Deer Park Siddhartha Gautama Buddha 12

Bhagavad Gita 20

Arthasastra Kautilya 34

Poems of Love and War 44

Mahavamsa 53

The Perfect Bride Dandin 61

Gitagovinda Jayadeva 66

Songs of Kabir Kabir 78

Sacred Writings of the Sikhs 84

AkbarNama Abu-lFazl 91

Hanuman Chalisa 99

On the Burning of Widows Ram Mohan Roy 104

Govinda Samanta LalBehariDay 116

Gitanjali RabindranathTagore 128

Hind Swaraj Mohandas K. Gandhi 144

Muna and Madan Lakshmiprasad Devkota 156

What Is India? Jawaharlal Nehru 165

Waiting for the Mahatma R.K. Narayan 173

All Is Burning Jean Arasanayagain 183

Bibliography 193

About the Editor 195