Stanley Wolpert

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Stanley Wolpert is an American historian who specializes in the history of India and Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Contents 1 Scholarship 2 Film 3 Controversy 4 External links

[edit] Scholarship

• Nine hours to Rama (Random House 1962)
• Morley and India, 1906-1910 (1967).
• A New History of India (Oxford (1977)
• Roots of Confrontation in South Asia (1982)
• Jinnah of Pakistan (Oxford 1984)
• Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan (1993)
• Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (1996)
• Gandhi's Passion (2001)
• Shameful Flight (2006)

[edit] Film

Wolpert's 1962 book, Nine Hours to Rama was adapted as the 1963 film, Nine Hours to Rama. It starred J.S. Casshyap as Mahatma Gandhi and Horst Buchholz as Naturam Godse. [1]

[edit] Controversy

In Wolpert's book Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, Wolpert claims that Nehru had a homosexual relationship with a teacher.

[edit] External links

• Stanley Wolpert's UCLA Home Page