The Journal of the American Oriental Society, October 1st, 2000
A History of India. By BURTON STEIN. The Blackwell History of the World. Oxford: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 1998. Pp. xvi + 432. $26.95 (paper). Stein's last major work was, at the time of his death in 1996, "almost, but not quite, finished" (R. I. Moore, the series editor, p. xii). It shows, unfortunately, many signs of having been rushed to posthumous publication in ways that do not lend credit to the memory of this engaging, controversial, and, above all, careful historian. Doubtless, the sections dealing with medieval and modern India (about three-quarters of the whole)--Stein's areas of maste...
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