Hugh Tinker
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hugh russell tinker b 20 july 1921, d april 2000: author and academic: at various times taught at rangoon university, SOAS (london), cornell, and lancaster universities: director of the institute of race relations: active in the liberal party and in CND: fought in the indian army during WW2, and stayed on in the indian civil service before returning to take a degree at sidney sussex college cambridge: author of many books on the indian subcontinent: married elisabeth mckenzie willis in 1948, three children, jonathan, mark and david, the last was killed in action in the falklands (malvinas) on the last day of the war in 1982 and for whom hugh produced "letters from the falklands", subsequently staged at the royal court and elsewhere: the photo shows him in 1995 with his lifelong friend prof dennis dalton and his wife dr sharron dalton (both columbia uni) and with elisabeth (mark tinker nov 2010)
Books
Men who overturned empires
this has to be one of the most interesting of professor tinker's books, giving short accounts of the political lives of the most significant leaders of "third world countries" and their roles in the dramatic handing over of power in the 20th century: prof tinker gives equal footing to such figures as kwame nkrumah, ho chi minh, aung san, and sukarno, whose reputations have had notably differing ends, but who he regards as the giants of the independence movements
The ordeal of love
On Charles Freer Andrews, 1871-1940, Anglican priest, lecturer, Gandhian, and mediator between the Indian nationalists and the British.
The Union of Burma
this is a classic work written before the country was effectively closed to the west for a generation: the author had spent a year teaching in rangoon and knew the principal characters of this drama personally
India and Pakistan
Provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis, concisely distilling sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between India and Pakistan, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and assessing the dominant political leaders -- from cover.