Ainslie Thomas Embree was born in Nova Scotia and
educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Columbia
University. He taught Indian history at Columbia University from
1958 to 1969, and was also professor of history at Duke University.
He was the President of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Embree retired in 1991. Mr. Embree is the author
of Charles Grant and British Rule in
India and India’s Search for National Identity. He
has been coeditor of several books, including Approaches to
Asian Civilizations, Guide to Oriental Classics, and The
Development of Civilization. With S. M. Ikram, Mr. Embree has
written Muslim Civilization in India.
WM. Theodore de Bary, Carpentier Professor of Oriental
Studies at Columbia University, is Provost Emeritus of that
university. From 1969–70 he was president of the Association for
Asian Studies. He is editor and coauthor of the
three-volume Sources of Indian, Chinese and Japanese
Tradition; Approaches to Asian Civilization; A Guide to Oriental
Classics; and Self and Society in Ming Thought.
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