This volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b.1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) His work for over fifty years at UCLA has been an inspiration to generations of students, and he has made major contributions in his chosen areas of specialization of India, its foreign policy with

Arnold P. Kaminsky is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, USA.

Roger D. Long is at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

Introduction 1. Damodar SarDesai: Past and Present in South and Southeast Asian History (Roger D. Long) 2. Multi-Zonal Integration and Network Relations at Vijayanagara (Nalini Rao) 3. Famines of Structural Adjustment in Colonial India (Vasant Kaiwar) 4. Charles Gordon and India (Marc Jason Gilbert) 5. The Modern Tamil Humanism of A. Madhaviah (Sita Anantha Raman) 6. Capitalism, Nationalism and Industrialization in the Age of Imperialism: The Case of G.D. Birla and the Jute Industry in Colonial India (Tara Sethia) 7. The Race of Civilizations in the Age of Globalization: The Chindia Problematic (Sucheta Mazumdar) 8. 'Before the Cock Crows': Early Stirrings of National Awareness on the Malay Peninsula (Ingelese Lanman) 9. Kinh and Highlander in the Vietnamese Revolution (Mark W. Mcleod) 10. Writing Early Philippine History: The Growing Gulf (Damon Woods) 11. Colonial Crisis: How One American Fought for the Dignity of the Philippine Highlanders (Shelton Woods)