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Autobiography of an archive : a scholar's passage to India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dirks, Nicholas B.
Format: Printed Book
Series:Cultures of history
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.