{"product_id":"the-bernard-cohn-omnibus","title":"The Bernard Cohn - Omnibus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Bernard S. Cohn\u003cbr\u003eForeword\/Introductio: Dipesh Chakrabarty\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 935\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195668715\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bernard Cohn, a strong votary of an inter-disciplinary approach, brought together anthropology and history in his research, subsequently widening the scope of this interaction. His contribution to understanding the politics of colonial knowledge has been acknowledged by historians and anthropologists for over three decades. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was his conviction that it was difficult to study colonialism in South Asia without a study of the accompanying structural and cultural changes. This volume brings together posthumously three classic collections of Professor Cohn's essays, which provide a comprehensive understanding of the working of colonialism in South Asia. A lucid foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty pulls together various strands from the three collections while providing an insight into Bernard Cohn the person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays is a collection of some of Bernard Cohn's earliest essays. It lays the theoretical foundation for bringing to history the anthropological tools, which are so crucial to the study of colonial South Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge examines the manipulations of language and law and marks a shift into areas where colonial impact was considered minimal. Cohn here studies the links between knowledge gathering, codification of law based on orientalist formulations, and the task of governance through inferiorization of the colonized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization is a historically anchored analysis of components of Indian civilization, which have been of interest to anthropologists. It speaks of castes, religions, land relations, state formations, and the politics of the Indian subcontinent. Cohn's use of 'civilization' as a focal concept also marks a break from the anthropological tradition of focus on the village as an analytical unit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudents and researchers will find this collection indispensable for studying aspects of South Asian history, society and politics and their roots in the colonial experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. An Anthropologist among the Historians \u003cbr\u003e   And other Essays \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by\u003cbr\u003e   Ranajit Guha \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. History and Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e2. India as a field of study\u003cbr\u003e3. Untouchables\u003cbr\u003e4. The British in Benares\u003cbr\u003e5. Representations of Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. Colonialism and its forms of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe British in India: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. The command of Language and the Language of command \u003cbr\u003e3. Law and the Colonial State in India\u003cbr\u003e4. The transformation of objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in    \u003cbr\u003e    Nineteenth-Century India\u003cbr\u003e5. Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: \u003cbr\u003e    India in the Nineteenth-Century \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. India \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Social Anthropology of a Civilization: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Approaches to the study of Indian Civilization\u003cbr\u003e2. India as a Geographic entity\u003cbr\u003e3. Cultural and Historical Geography\u003cbr\u003e4. Demography, Economic structures, and Language\u003cbr\u003e5. The shaping of the civilization: \u003cbr\u003e     Views of the past\u003cbr\u003e6. The Cultural and Structural History of India: \u003cbr\u003e    Hindu beginnings and Islamic penetrations\u003cbr\u003e7. The Mughal period and European conquest\u003cbr\u003e8. Cultural and structural history: \u003cbr\u003e    Nineteenth and twentieth centuries \u003cbr\u003e9. Urbanization, Education and Social and Cultural change\u003cbr\u003e10. Indian Social structure and Culture: \u003cbr\u003e      Introduction\u003cbr\u003e11. Indian Social structure and Culture: \u003cbr\u003e      Caste\u003cbr\u003e12. The Indian Village \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Bernard S. Cohn \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153562268016,"sku":"22810","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/22810.jpg?v=1793911166","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-bernard-cohn-omnibus","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}