Peter Robb (Editor) The Concept of Race in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition. 0195637674 ix/354 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x  9", is bound in black leatherette, with gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages.  Previous owner's bookplate is neatly affixed to verso of front flyleaf. Dust jacket, now in mylar cover, exhibits very light shelfwear. "South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian studies. This volume constitutes one of the first attempts to raise the question comparatively and over a long time-span with regard to South Asia. It examines whether there were South Asian concepts of race, or, as has often been argued, rce became an issue n the subcontinent only under Western influence after the eighteenth century."