Table of Contents

PREFACE ; CONTRIBUTORS ; NOTE TO THE READER ; MAPS ; SUBJECT INDEX

About the Author

Dr Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Dr Jalal teaches at the History Department and the Fletcher School. She obtained her BA in history and political science from Wellesley College, USA, and her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. Dr Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-87), Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC (1985-86), and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1988-90). Between 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fellow. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tufts University, Columbia University and Harvard University.