Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past

by Cynthia Talbot

Knowing India honors the contributions of Thomas R. Trautmann in the fields of anthropology and history by presenting research from leading scholars who are his contemporaries, colleagues, and former students. Divided into four sections, the seventeen essays in this volumes look at modes of conceptualizing and classifying traditional South Asian society, perceptions of the precolonial past in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aspects of precolonial India’s historical development and writing

424 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2011