Curriculum Vitae

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Education

PhD	University of California, Berkeley	1970
MA	University of California, Berkeley	1964
BA	University of New Hampshire	1961

Professional Service

Co-editor, New Cambridge History of India, 1979-present  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Islam in Afghanistan, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, September 2002  

Mahatma Gandhi/Nelson Mandela: From Conscience to Power, Twentieth Century Lives Duke University, January, 2002  

The World Hunt, Species Depletion and European Expansion, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November, 2001  

Warriors and Nation-Building in Afghanistan, Duke University, October, 2001  

Opium and the British Indian Empire, The Kingsley Martin Lecture, Cambridge University, Cambridge England, May 2001  

Contemplating the Medieval and Early Modern History of India, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 2001  

Publications

Books

1. The Unending Frontier: Environmental History of the Early Modern World (2003), University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles
2. (Ed.), Land Property and the Environment (2002), Institute of Contemporary Studies Press, Oakland CA

Papers Published

1. The Royal Commission on Opium of 1895, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 36 (February, 2002)
2. The Opium Industry in British India, edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Indian Economic and Social History Review no. 2-3 (2002), pp. 149-180 (Dharma Kumar Special Issue.)
3. The Mughal Empire, in The Magnificent Mughals, edited by Zeenut Ziad (2001), Karachi: Oxford University Press