An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays

By Bernard S. Cohn

Book Overview

This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays on colonial and post-colonial India, writings that have been of seminal importance to scholars of the subcontinent since the 1950s. A scholar of history as well as anthropology, Cohn offers readers a unique perspective on the social structure, colonization, and transformation of Indian society. This study will be of special value for courses in anthropology, sociology and history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195618750
• ISBN13: 9780195618754
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"