Education
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Cohn received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949 and a Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from Cornell University in 1954.
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Bernard S. Cohn
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From 1952-1953 he engaged in field research in India as a Fulbright scholar. In addition to Chicago, he also taught at the University of Rochester and was a research assistant for the United States Army at Fort Benning. In 1968, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Cohn"s seminal contributions included work on India"s caste system, by which he established that caste was solidified as a concept by the British codification of it, as well as the establishment of historical anthropology as a means to link the disciplines of anthropology and history.
Cohn"s works include Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996), An Anthropologist Among the Historians (1987) and India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971). His students, including, Nicholas Dirks, Ronald Inden, and Ritty Lukose have continued in the vein of his work.
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His work has been closely studied by members of Subaltern Studies, especially Ranajit Guha.
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