Ainslie Embree

Ainslie Thomas Embree ( born 1921 ) is an American Indologist and historian.

Embree graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1941 and his doctorate in 1960. From 1948 to 1958 he taught at the Indore Christian College in India, after which he taught as a professor at Columbia University. He was several times to study in India ( as in 1963 and 1967) and director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University. In 1991 he retired.

He was president of the American Association for Asian Studies and the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Writings

• With Friedrich Wilhelm India, Fischer World History Volume 17, 1967
• Charles Grant and the British Rule in India, London: G. Allene 1962
• Published by SM Ikram: Muslim civilization in India, New York 1964
• Published by The Hindu tradition, New York: Modern Library 1966
• Publisher: Encyclopedia of Asian History, 4 volumes, Collier / Macmillan, 1989
• Publisher: Sources of Indian Tradition, 2 vols, Columbia University Press, 2nd edition 1988
• Imagining India: Essays on Indian History, Oxford University Press 1989
• Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in India, University of California Press 1990
• India 's Search for National Identity, Knopf 1972
• Publisher with others: India's worlds and U.S. scholars, 1947-1997, New Delhi, American Institute of Indian Studies 1998
• Mark C. Carnes with: Defining a nation: India on the eve of independence in 1945, WW Norton 2013