Ainslie Embree

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Ainslie Thomas Embree (* 1921 in Sunnyside, near Hawkesbury, Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia , Canada ; † June 6, 2017 ) was a Canadian-American Indologist and historian .

Life

Embree studied at one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States, Columbia University of New York , founded in 1754 , where he graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree (BA). After his military service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the British RAF - Embree flew as a navigator in the officer rank - he came through a friend in contact with the established by the Canadian church and the university Agra associated Indore Christian College in Central India , where he taught from 1948 to 1958. His future wife was already a teacher in Madurai, southern India, and later worked with her husband as a sociology teacher at the same college in Indore. Subsequently, after completing his doctorate at Columbia University in 1960, Embree was appointed professor there, where he made it his life's work to deepen the Americans' knowledge of the past as well as the present India.

Embree was on several study visits to India (1963 and 1967) and director of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University. From 1978 to 1980 he was under the Carter Administration Counselor for Cultural Affairs at the American Embassy in Delhi . 1991 emeritus , he accompanied 1994-95 the newly appointed US Ambassador Frank Wisner (* 1938) in the same function, where he also advised his staff.

In 1998, Embree was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In addition to Columbia University, he taught at Duke , Brown , Johns Hopkins University and Oxford at St Antony's College .

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

The Embree couple had two children.

Fonts

  • (together with Friedrich Wilhelm ): India , Fischer Weltgeschichte Volume 17, 1967 - Despite the older status, the history is still very legible and accurate
  • Charles Grant and the British Rule in India , London: G. Allene 1962
  • Editor, together with SM Ikram: Muslim civilization in India , New York 1964
  • Published by The Hindu Tradition , New York: Modern Library 1966
  • Editor: Encyclopedia of Asian History , 4 volumes, Collier / Macmillan 1989
  • Editor: Sources of Indian Tradition , 2 volumes, Columbia University Press, 2nd edition 1988
  • Editor with Carol Gluck : Asia in Western and World History: a guide for teaching , Armonk (New York): ME Sharpe 1997
  • 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
  • Edited by (with others): India's worlds and US scholars, 1947–1997 , New Delhi, American Institute of Indian Studies 1998
  • (together with Mark C. Carnes :) Defining a nation: India on the eve of independence, 1945 , WW Norton 2013

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "... being still a Canadian"
  2. ^ Frank Wisner: For Ainslie Embree, India was the most important event of the 20th century. In: The Indian Express. June 13, 2017, accessed June 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ https://sipa.columbia.edu/news/ainslie-embree1921-2017
  4. ↑ Consultant work 1994-95
personal data
SURNAME Embree, Ainslie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embree, Ainslie Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American indologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunnyside at Hawkesbury, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2017