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An anthropologist among the historians and other essays

Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-2003.

Year: c1987.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

Introduction by Ranajit Guha

I. HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

1. An Anthropologist among the Historians: A Field Study

2. History and Anthropology: The State of Play

3. Anthropology and History in the 1980s: Towards a Rapprochement

II. INDIA AS A FIELD OF STUDY

4. Networks and Centres in the Integration of Indian Civilization

5. The Pasts of an Indian Village

6. Regions Subjective and Objective: Their Relation to the Study of Modern Indian History and Society

7. Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture

8. Is There a New Indian History? Society and Social Change Under the Raj

9. African Models and Indian Histories

10. The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia

III. UNTOUCHABLES

11. The Changing Status of a Depressed Caste

12. The Changing Traditions of a Low Caste

13. Madhopur Revisited

14. Chamar Family in a North Indian Village: A Structural Contingent

IV. THE BRITISH IN BENARES

15. The Initial British Impact on India: A Case Study of the Benares Region

16. Structural Change in Indian Rural Society 1596-1885

17. The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society

18. From Indian Status to British Contract

19. Political Systems in Eighteenth-Century India: The Benares Region

20. The Recruitment and Training of British Civil Servants in India

21. Some Notes on Law and Change in North India

22. Anthropological Notes on Law and Disputes in North India

V. REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE

23. Representing Authority in Victorian India

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Title:

An anthropologist among the historians and other essays : Bernard S. Cohn ; with an introduction by Ranajit Guha.

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Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-2003

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An anthropologist among the historians and other essays : Bernard S. Cohn ; with an introduction by Ranajit Guha.
Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-2003
Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press, c1987.

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Subject Headings:

• History -- Methodology
• Anthropology -- Methodology
• India -- Social conditions
• India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947

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