Society and ideology : essays in South Asian history presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet - Ballhatchet, Kenneth; Robb, Peter (Peter G.); Chaudhuri, K. N.; Powell, Avril A. (Avril Ann) (Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993)
Texts, communities and the history of change in modern South Asia / Peter Robb -- From the barbarian and the civilized to the dialectics of colours / K.N. Chaudhuri -- Approaches to pre-modern Indo-Muslim historical writing / Peter Hardy -- Artful apostasy? A Mughal mansabdar among the Jesuits / Avril Powell -- Colonial perceptions of ethnicity and culture in early nineteenth-century Sri Lanka / John D. Rogers -- The rhetoric of caste status in modern Sri Lanka / A.P. Kannangara -- The impact of British rule on religious community / Peter Robb -- The Western-educated elites and popular religion / Geoffrey Oddie -- "Who are your leaders?" Plague, the Raj and the communities in Bombay, 1896-1901 / Ian Catanach -- The politics of childbirth / Dagmar Engels -- Historical approaches to communalism / Rosalind O'Hanlon.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Major publications of K.A. Ballhachet at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1948-88" (p. viii-x).
Keywords: Ballhatchet, Kenneth; Ethnicity -- South Asia; South Asia -- History