Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Historical biographies for South Asia

It is worth thinking about why there are simply not as many historical biographies written about major South Asian figures, except for figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Two recent exceptions:
Richard Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan 1300 - 1761: Eight Indian Lives
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=eight%20indian%20lives
Very usable, I suspect even in middle school, and it's eight discrete though connected biographies so chapters can be used in isolation

Andre Wink, Akbar (Makers of the Muslim World)
http://www.amazon.com/Akbar-Makers-Muslim-World-Andre/dp/1851686053/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1372865838&sr=8-2&keywords=andre+wink
Short enough to be used in its entirety

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