Dirks, Nicholas B.,  1950- <br/><br/>
Autobiography of an archive :  a scholar's passage to India / 
Nicholas B. Dirks. 
 - New York :   Columbia University Press,   2015. 
 - viii, 390 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - Cultures of history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788178244587 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology and history--India.<br/>Anthropological archives--India.<br/>Education, Higher--Philosophy--United States.<br/>Interdisciplinary research--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301.0954 DIR