Education

     University of Michigan, PhD, 1972, History (South Asia specialty), Sociology

Fellowships and Awards

     Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967)

     Fulbright Hayes Language Fellowship (1968-1969)

     Fulbright Fellowship-HEW (1969-1970) (India)

     American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Fellowship

          (1975-1976) (India)

     Social Science Research Council, Research Grant (1977) (England)

     Social Science Research Council, Research Grant (1980) (England)

     American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Fellowship (1990). (India)

Teaching  (University of Michigan)

Indian Civilization

Mughal India

Nineteenth Century India

Twentieth Century India

World History

American Popular History

Individual Reading Courses/ World history

Current Position

Senior Research Scholar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan

Academic Books

The Marathas: 1600-1818, volume II-4 of the New Cambridge History of

      India (Cambridge, 1993). Paperback reprint, 2001.

Marathas, Marauders, and State-Formation in Eighteenth Century 

      India (Oxford, 1994). Paperback reprint, 1997.

Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (Palgrave Press, 2001). This

volume explores the trans-cultural, trans-religious use of luxury robes as

means of building loyalty in many Asian medieval kingdoms.

Robes of Honour:Khil’at in Pre-Colonial and Colonial India (Oxford University

Press, 2002). Specific case studies of the use of robing and its ambiguities in the

Indian setting. The volume also includes a long theoretical chapter on robing both

inside and at the margins of the medieval Islamic world.

When Asia Was the World (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press,

             Nov, 2007)

Popular Books

Sunlight and Steel: The Story of the S.S. Constitution and the S.S. Independence (Prow Press, 1994)

Our Vacation: A 1910 Riverboat Adventure Featuring the Spink Family Photographs (Prow Press,       forthcoming, 2007)

Encyclopedia Entries

   Articles on  Aurangzeb, Babur, Albuquerque, Mughals, Panipat, The Reader's

              Companion to Military History, ed. R. Cowley and G. Parker  (Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1996).

   Article on khil’a in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, ed. Joanne

               B. Eicher (Oxford: Berg Publishers, forthcoming 2010)

              

Articles

   Social disruption and social order

        "Scarf and Sword: Thugs, Marauders, and State Formation in Eighteenth

             Century Malwa", Indian Economic and Social History Review, VI, 4

            (Dec., 1969), 403-429.

      "The Slow Conquest: Administrative Integration of Malwa into the Maratha

          Empire", Modern Asian Studies, 9, 1 (1977), 1-40.

       "Recovery from Adversity in Eighteenth Century India: Re-thinking

          Villages, Peasants, and Politics in Pre-Modern Kingdoms", Journal of

  Peasant Studies, 7, 4 (Fall, 1979), 61-80.

              “Revenue System of the Marathas under Nana Phadnis” in  A.R. Kulkarni,

              M.A. Nayeem,T.R.de Souza ed., Medieval Deccan  History:

              Commemoration Volume in Honor of P.M. Joshi (Bombay, 1996), 190 - 210.

  Kingly strategies

         "Legitimacy and Loyalty in Some Successor States of the Eighteenth Century",

              Kingship and Authority in South Asia, ed. J.F. Richards, Publication Series 3,

               (South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978), 286 - 303.

         "Robes of honor: A 'transactional' kingly ceremony", Indian Economic and

    Social History Review, 33, 3 (Fall, 1996), 227- 242.

     

      

  Military history

          "Forts and Social Control in the Maratha State", Modern Asian Studies, 12,

    1 (1979), 1 - 17.

   “The Limited Adoption of European-style military forces by eighteenth century 

       rulers in India”, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 35, 3 (1998) 229 -

                 245.

    "Symbolic and Structural Constraints on the Adoption of European-

       Style Military Technologies in the Eighteenth Century" in Richard B. Barnett, ed.,

        Rethinking Early Modern India (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002) 155-178.

    “War, the Military, and the Environment: Central India, 1560 – 1820” in Richard P.Tucker

    and Edmund Russell, eds. , Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an

       Environmental History of War (Oregon State Press, 2004) 42-64. 

    

  Construction of castes, tribes, and communities

           "Bhils and the Idea of a Criminal Tribe in Nineteenth Century India", Crime

     and Criminality in British India, ed. Anand A. Yang, Association for Asian

                 Studies Monograph 42 (1985), 140-161.

                "Kinship and Pargana in Eighteenth Century  Khandesh", Indian Economic

                 and  Social History  Review, 12, 4 (1985), 371-397. (with John Richards),

     reprinted in  P.J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Evolution

      of Revolution  (Oxford University Press, 2003).

                “Hindu, Muslim and the ‘Other’ in Eighteenth Century India”, in Sushil Mithal,

                 Surprising  Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Early Modern India (Lanham:

                 Lexington Books, 2003), 11-30.  

                 “Maratha Patronage of Muslim Religious Institutions" David Gilmartin, ed.,

                 Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia

                 (University of Florida, 2001).

                 “ Epistemologies Concerning the Past in Maharshtra” D. N. Jha and Eugenia

                Vanina eds., India: Studies in Medieval Mentality (Delhi: Tulika Publishers,

                forthcoming, 2008).

      

Economic history

                 "Burhanpur: Entrepot and Hinterland: 1650-1750", Indian Economic and

                 Social History Review, Special Issue, (Jan., 1989). Reprinted in Merchants and the

                 State in Early Modern India, Sanjay Subramanian  (ed.),  (Oxford   

                 University Press: Bombay, 1990).

                “A Tale of Three Cities: Burhanpur from 1400 to 1800, in Kenneth Hall ed,. Small

                Cities in the Asian Context (forthcoming, 2008). 

Art History

                "Learning to See: An historian and visual evidence" (ISOSA Newsletter,

                6, Winter, 1995) 2 - 3.