Аннотация:This volume gathers the harvest of recent doctoral dissertations on South Asia, principally from North America and Western Europe, but exclusive of theses from universities in South Asia itself.The yield--1305 dissertations based on research carried out during the early and middle nineteen-sixties and brought to completion between 1966 and 1970-is even greater than one would have guessed, eloquent testimony to the expansion of South Asian studies in the West over the last decade.It will not be claimed, of course, that the results of all this fervid scholarly industry are of uniformly high standard.In fact, "Treasures and Trivia" might aptly characterize the range of quality to be found in these 1305 entries, had not that title been pre-empted by Paul W. van der Veur and Lian The as a rubric for American dissertation research on the neighboring region of Southeast Asia.What is claimed is that the magnitude of the research effort here surveyed demands, if we are to go on to improve the quality and depth of dissertation scholarship on South Asia, just the sort of bibliographical controls which Mr. Frank Shulman provides in this volume.
