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Archives of India, while some of his correspondence with LordCornwallis from that period is in the Public Record Office in London. A few of his letters to Lord William Bcntinck are to be found in the Portland Papers at the University of Nottingham; the BodleianLibrary, Oxford, has a number ofimportant letters to Robert Dundas. The MelviDe Papers in the National Library of Scotland (the micro-filmed copies in the National Archives of India were consulted) contain some interesting references to Grant, as do the relevantsections of the Wellesley and Hastings collections in the British Museum. Grant’s many lengthy speeches in Parliament and the EastIndia House were usually reported in considerable detail—sometimes from copies or notes he himself supplied—and these have proved ofgreat value in relating his public and private attitudes. For the details of his private life, the major source is the biography published by‘Henry Morris in 1904. While Morris* chief interest was Grant’s connection wth the establishment of Protestant missions in India, he printed many excerpts from Grant’s journals and private letters, which now seem to be lost.

This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the just society has determined the social and political life of India. In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth century, religions legitimized violence as people struggled for what they regarded as their legitimate claims upon the future. As examples of the tension between religious and nationalist visions of the good society, Embree examines two explosive cases—one involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the separatist movement of the Sikhs. Thought-provoking and searching, Utopias in Conflict should interest anyone concerned about fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics and religion in the Third World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.