Stanley Albert Wolpert was an American historian, Indologist, and author on the political and intellectual history of modern India and Pakistan and wrote fiction and nonfiction books on the topics.
12 Facts About Stanley Wolpert
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Stanley Wolpert taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1959 to 2002.
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Stanley Albert Wolpert was born on December 23,1927, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish parents.
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Stanley Wolpert was a guest on Connie Martinson Talks Books in 2011, promoting his 2010 book, India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation.
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Stanley Wolpert married Dorothy Wolpert on June 12,1953.
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Stanley Wolpert went on to become a senior partner in a Century City law firm, and made several visits to India with her husband.
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Stanley Wolpert served as editor alongside Richard Sisson of the volume of papers presented at the University of California, Los Angeles March 1984 international conference on the pre Independent phase of the Indian National Congress and published by the University of California Press.
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Stanley Wolpert never gave up his quest to liberate India from imperial bonds of exploitation and to liberate humankind from the shackles of prejudice, fear, and hatred, and from the terrors of brutal racial and religious, class and caste conflict.
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Stanley Wolpert courted pain as most men did pleasure, welcomed sorrow as others greeted joy, and was always ready to face any opponent or his own death with a disarming smile of love.
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Stanley Wolpert was not, of course, the first or only prophet of peace murdered by a self-righteous killer, nor, most unfortunately, would he be the last.
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Stanley Wolpert gives us the saint, but the shrewd politician is little in evidence in this book.
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Stanley Wolpert observed, 'The problem is that Wolpert's own narrative doesn't justify singling out Mountbatten for all the opprobrium'.