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(ISBN:0-19566216-8 ~ Pub Year: 2001 ~ Pages:682 ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Oxford)
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There was a time when it made no difference to historians and anthropologists of South Asia that they operated in isolation from each other within adjacent fields of knowledge. Since the end of the Second World War it is anthropology, rather than history, which has led the revolt against the mutual segregation of the two disciplines within the domain of South Asian studies. This development owes as much to education as to experience.
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Contemporary understanding of South Asian history has been shaped by many scholars, but few may have has so wide an influence as Bernard Cohn, and of those perhaps none has made a mark almost solely through the vehicle of essays.’
-Frank F. Conlon in ‘The Journal of Asian Studies’
In post-colonial India, new studies have appeared which attempt to see Indian culture and society from a new angle. Cohn’s volume represents one of the pioneering perspectives. It is compulsory reading for every scholar of Indian society and culture.’
-Bharati Ray in ‘the statesman’
The book is rich in information and insights, and along the way, Cohn throws suggestion s regarding how to locate and analyze important problems…The papers…collected together in this volume, constitute indispensable reading for all serious students of Indian culture, history and society.
-M.N. Srinivas in ‘Economic and Political Weekly’
This book will be particularly valuable for younger scholars; the articles based on research will help them appreciate tools with which their undergraduate and graduate courses do not familiarize them.
-Narayani Gupta in ‘The Book Review’
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