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

Table of Contents:

Part I. Autobiography
1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History
2. Autobiography of an Archive
3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown

Part II. History and Anthropology
4. Castes of Mind
5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact
6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India

Part III. Empire
7. Imperial Sovereignty
8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism
9. The Idea of Empire

Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge
10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century
11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge
12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past

Part V. University
13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account
14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University
15. The Opening of the American Mind

The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ritual, and folk customs enabled historians to develop richer and more representative narratives. The intersection of these two disciplines also helped scholars reframe the legacies of empire and the roots of colonial knowledge.

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