The lectures presented in this volume were given during the summer of 1970 under the sponsorship of the CIC Summer Program on South Asia and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies of The University of Michigan. The lecture by A. K. Ramanujan, Professor of Dravidian Studies and Linguistics at The University of Chicago (“The Interior Landscape: The Poetic Tradition in Classical Tamil”), and that by Padmanabha S. Jaini, Professor of Indic Languages and Literatures at The University of Michigan (“Śramaṇas and their Conflict with Brahmanical Society”), cannot be included because of commitments to publication elsewhere.
It should be recognized that these essays appear in revised lecture form, and not as fully polished scholarly papers. They carry nevertheless the authority--and no little verve--of experienced scholars concerned both with the traditions and the changes so characteristic of modern India.
We are grateful to the lecturers for their contributions and for the efforts they expended in preparing their notes for publication.
Richard L. Park
Ann Arbor
1971
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