Autobiography of an archive : a scholar's passage to India / Nicholas B. Dirks.
Material type: TextSeries: Cultures of historyPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.Description: viii, 390 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9788178244587
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index.
Introduction : passage to India -- Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history -- Autobiography of an archive -- Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown -- Castes of mind -- Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact -- The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India -- Imperial sovereignty -- Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism -- The idea of empire -- In near ruins -- G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge -- South Asian studies : futures past -- Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account -- Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university -- The opening of the American mind.
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