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"This volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b. 1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where all of the contributors received their Ph.D as did SarDesai himself. His work for over fifty years at UCLA has been an inspiration to generations of students, and he has made major contributions to the world of learning, and in his chosen areas of specialization of India, especially its foreign policy with regard to Southeast Asia, imperialism and the history of the modern European empires; and Southeast Asia. He has served as Chair of the History Department at UCLA as well as Bombay University and President of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. The volume includes a biographical introduction and a bibliographic essay on SarDesai’s major writings and contains new and cutting-edge essays on the design of imperial Vijayanagara; famine policy in colonial India and how European imperialist policies created, or exacerbated the impact of, famines; the relatively unknown chapter of ‘Chinese Gordon’s’ brief Indian career; reflections on the Tamil humanist A. Madhaviah, a man ahead of his time; nationalism and the career of industrialist G.D. Birla, Gandhi's friend; the ‘Chindia Problematic’—India and China relations; the state of Philippine historiography and its nationalist impulses; the role of Vietnamese highlanders in the Vietnamese nationalist struggle and their recent plight; early Malayan nationalism; and the efforts of American administrators to protect Philippine highland natives from being forced to participate in international exhibitions as curiosities from the American colony." \n
Dr. Long is professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is a British historian who received his B.A. from the University of London and his M.A., C.Phil, and Ph.D. from UCLA where he studied with Stanley Wolpert. He lived in Asia for ten years and has travelled widely visiting nearly fifty countries around the world. He has lived in his native England, Pakistan, Japan, Italy, Canada (Calgary) for one summer teaching at the University of Calgary, and he lived in Los Angeles for nine years before moving to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1987. He is fond of sports and was once a competitive swimmer and water polo player. He collects history books and has several thousand books in his personal library. His other main hobby, especially when he travels, is photography and he owns a small collection of cameras, both analog and digital. He is married to Professor E.L. Cerroni-Long, an Italian anthropologist whom he met in 197 in Japan and who teaches in Eastern Michigan University's Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology. She has two doctorates, one in Oriental Studies from the University of Venice, Italy, and the other in Anthropology from UCLA. While Dr. Long loves all aspects of history, he has specialized in his writings on the history of the British Empire in India, the decolonization process, and the creation of Pakistan. In addition to Western Civ and World History survey courses, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of England, British Empire, and in the history of India.
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