South Asia in the World Today by Talbot, Phillips. Editor - 1950

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 254pp, Part I: The Problem; Part II: Social Forces in South Asia; Part III: Economic Forces in South Asia: Part IV: Poliical Forces in South Asia; Part V: America's Stake in South Asia; List of participants, index. Tall 8vo/23cm. Brown cloth gilt, light wear in protected lightly rubbed dj, internally fine. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Institute of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation at the University of Chicago May 25-29, 1949. More than sixty scholars, officials and business leaders involved significantly in South Asia affairs took part. Some fourteen papers were given and are printed here. Phillips Talbot (1914- 2010) was then Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and had been a foreign correspondent in South Asia. He later became U.S. Ambassador to Greece and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs. Mahar 970..