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The Bernard Cohn omnibus/ Chakrabarty Dipesh

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Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011,Description: vi, 164p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195668711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.254 CHA
Contents:
I. An Anthropologist among the Historians And other Essays; 1. History and Anthropology; 2. India as a field of study; 3. Untouchables; 4. The British in Benares; 5. Representations of Empire; II. Colonialism and its forms of Knowledge; The British in India: 1. Introduction; 2. The command of Language and the Language of command; 3. Law and the Colonial State in India; 4. The transformation of objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India; 5. Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth-Century; III. India The Social Anthropology of a Civilization: 1. Approaches to the study of Indian Civilization; 2. India as a Geographic entity; 3. Cultural and Historical Geography; 4. Demography, Economic structures, and Language; 5. The shaping of the civilization Views of the past; 6. The Cultural and Structural History of India Hindu beginnings and Islamic penetrations; 7. The Mughal period and European conquest; 8. Cultural and structural history Nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 9. Urbanization, Education and Social and Cultural change; 10. Indian Social structure and Culture Introduction; 11. Indian Social structure and Culture Caste; 12. The Indian Village.
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I. An Anthropologist among the Historians
And other Essays;

1. History and Anthropology;
2. India as a field of study;
3. Untouchables;
4. The British in Benares;
5. Representations of Empire;


II. Colonialism and its forms of Knowledge;

The British in India:

1. Introduction;
2. The command of Language and the Language of command;
3. Law and the Colonial State in India;
4. The transformation of objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in
Nineteenth-Century India;
5. Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism:
India in the Nineteenth-Century;




III. India

The Social Anthropology of a Civilization:

1. Approaches to the study of Indian Civilization;
2. India as a Geographic entity;
3. Cultural and Historical Geography;
4. Demography, Economic structures, and Language;
5. The shaping of the civilization
Views of the past;
6. The Cultural and Structural History of India
Hindu beginnings and Islamic penetrations;
7. The Mughal period and European conquest;
8. Cultural and structural history
Nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
9. Urbanization, Education and Social and Cultural change;
10. Indian Social structure and Culture
Introduction;
11. Indian Social structure and Culture
Caste;
12. The Indian Village.