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An anthropologist among the historians and other essays
Bernard S. Cohn
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Frontmatter (page iii)
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Introduction by Ranajit Guha (page VII)
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I. HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY (page 1)
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1. An Anthropologist among the Historians: A Field Study (page 1)
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2. History and Anthropology: The State of Play (page 18)
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3. Anthropology and History in the 1980s: Towards a Rapprochement (page 50)
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II. INDIA AS A FIELD OF STUDY (page 78)
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4. Networks and Centres in the Integration of Indian Civilization (page 78)
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5. The Pasts of an Indian Village (page 88)
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6. Regions Subjective and Objective: Their Relation to the Study of Modern Indian History and Society (page 100)
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7. Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture (page 136)
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8. Is There a New Indian History? Society and Social Change Under the Raj (page 172)
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9. African Models and Indian Histories (page 200)
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10. The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia (page 224)
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III. UNTOUCHABLES (page 255)
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11. The Changing Status of a Depressed Caste (page 255)
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12. The Changing Traditions of a Low Caste (page 284)
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13. Madhopur Revisited (page 299)
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14. Chamar Family in a North Indian Village: A Structural Contingent (page 308)
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IV. THE BRITISH IN BENARES (page 320)
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15. The Initial British Impact on India: A Case Study of the Benares Region (page 320)
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16. Structural Change in Indian Rural Society 1596-1885 (page 343)
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17. The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society (page 422)
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18. From Indian Status to British Contract (page 463)
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19. Political Systems in Eighteenth-Century India: The Benares Region (page 483)
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20. The Recruitment and Training of British Civil Servants in India (page 500)
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21. Some Notes on Law and Change in North India (page 554)
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22. Anthropological Notes on Law and Disputes in North India (page 575)
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V. REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE (page 632)
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23. Representing Authority in Victorian India (page 632)
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Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAS | 51.2 (May 1992): 412-414 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199205%2951%3A2%3C412%3AAAAHAO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D |
Man | 26.4 (Dec. 1991): 762-763 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28199112%292%3A26%3A4%3C762%3AAAATHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
JAS | 48.3 (Aug. 1989): 647-648 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28198908%2948%3A3%3C647%3AAAATHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 |
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Published: c1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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