Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation.(Book review)

Empire, Identity, and India: Liberalism, Modernity and the Nation. By Peter Robb. (New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 231. $45.00.)

It is a measure of the maturity that the study of South Asia has attained over the last half century (and perhaps, too, of the aging of that international confraternity of scholars who wrought this renaissance) that publishers are starting to produce retrospective collections of work by some of these pioneering practitioners. For example, Oxford University Press New Delhi has recently gotten on the bandwagon with a new series called Oxford Collected Essays. The book under review, part of that series, showcases four …