This Volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji Sardesai (b.1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Where all of the Contributors received their Ph.D as did sardesai himself. His work for over fifty years at UCLA has been an inspiration to generations of Students, and he has made major contributions to the world of learning, and in his chosen areas of specialization of India, especially its foreign Policy with regard to southeast Asia, imperialism and the history of the Modern European empires; and southeast Asia.