Autobiography of an Archive - A Scholar''s Passage to India

A scholar's intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Passage to IndiaPart I. Autobiography1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History2. Autobiography of an Archive3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow CrownPart II. History and Anthropology4. Castes of Mind5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern IndiaPart III. Empire7. Imperial Sovereignty8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism9. The Idea of EmpirePart IV. The Politics of Knowledge10. In Near Ruins11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge12. South Asian Studies: Futures PastPart V. University13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University15. The Opening of the American MindNotesPermissionsIndex

About the author

Nicholas B. Dirks is the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor of history and anthropology. An internationally renowned historian and anthropologist, he is known for his work on the history of kingship and the institution of caste in India, as well as for his writing on the British empire. His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom; Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India; and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. He has edited several books, including Colonialism and Culture, Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, and In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century.

Summary

A scholar’s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Dirks, Nicholas B. Dirks, Nicholas Dirks
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9780231169677
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16967-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cultures of History; Cultures of History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Asian History, History: theory and methods, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, anthropology; history