The Bernard Cohn omnibus

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The Bernard Cohn omnibus

[author, Bernard S. Cohn] ; with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty

Oxford University Press, 2004

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  • An anthropologist among the historians and other essays / with an introduction by Ranajit Guha
  • Colonialism and its forms of knowledge : the British in India / with a foreword by Nicolas B. Dirks
  • India, the social anthropology of a civilization / with a foreword by Gyan Prakash

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Description

This Omnibus edition brings together three seminal works by the influential historian Bernard S. Cohn; 'India: a Social Anthropology of a Civilisation', 'An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays' and 'Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge'.

Table of Contents

  • INTRODUCTION TO THE OMNIBUS EDITION
  • VOLUME I: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST AMONG THE HISTORIANS AND OTHER ESSAYS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AN ANTHROLOGIST AMONG THE HISTORIANS: A FIELD STUDY
  • 2. History and Anthropology: The State of Play
  • 3. Anthropology and History in the 1980s: Towards a Rapprochement
  • 4. NETWORKS AND CENTRES IN THE INTEGRATION OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION
  • 5. The Pasts of an Indian Village
  • 6. Regions Subjective and Objective: Their Relations to the Study of Modern Indian History and Society
  • 7. Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Sociey 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 23. REPRESENTING AUTHORITY IN VICTORIAN INDIA
  • VOLUME 2: COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
  • FOREWORD : NICHOLAS B. DIRKS
  • 1. Introduction : The Command Language and the Language of Command
  • 2. Law and the Colonial State in India
  • 3. The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities and Art in Nineteeth Century India
  • 4. Cloth,Clothes and Colonialism: India in the Nineteeth Century
  • VOLUME 3: INDIA: THE SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF A CIVILISATION
  • 1. Approaches to the Study of Indian Civilisation
  • 2. India as a Geographic Entity
  • 3. Cultural and Historical Geography
  • 4. Demography, Economic Structures and Language
  • 5. The Shaping of Civilisation:Views of the Past
  • 6. The Cultural and Structural History of India
  • 7. Hindu Beginnings and Islamic Penetrations
  • 8. The Mughal Period and European Conquest
  • 9. Cultural and Structural History: Nineteeth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 10. Urbanisation, Education, and Social and Cultural Change
  • 11. Indian Social Structure and Culture: Introduction
  • 12. Indian Social Structure and Culture: Caste
  • 13. The Indian Village
  • CONCLUSION

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