Background
Cohn, Bernard Samuel was born on May 13, 1928 in Brooklyn. Son of Nathan and Blanche (Herc) Cohn.
(This title traces the development of Indian civilization ...)
This title traces the development of Indian civilization from its earliest times to the beginning of the 21st century by combining a historical and anthropological approach to the subject. This book is intended for historians, and anthropologists.
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( Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire a...)
Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal systems, led to fundamental structural changes in Indian social relations. This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form a multifaceted exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Cohn argues that the British Orientalists' study of Indian languages was important to the colonial project of control and command. He also asserts that an arena of colonial power that seemed most benign and most susceptible to indigenous influences--mostly law--in fact became responsible for the institutional reactivation of peculiarly British notions about how to regulate a colonial society made up of "others." He shows how the very Orientalist imagination that led to brilliant antiquarian collections, archaeological finds, and photographic forays were in fact forms of constructing an India that could be better packaged, inferiorized, and ruled. A final essay on cloth suggests how clothes have been part of the history of both colonialism and anticolonialism.
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(This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays ...)
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.
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(This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays ...)
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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195626168/?tag=2022091-20
anthropologist educator historian
Cohn, Bernard Samuel was born on May 13, 1928 in Brooklyn. Son of Nathan and Blanche (Herc) Cohn.
Bachelor of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy (Social Science Research Council fellow), Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1954.
Research associate, assistant professor anthropology, University of Chicago, 1956-1958;
visiting assistant professor of history, University of Chicago, 1959-1960;
professor anthropology and South Asian history, University of Chicago, 1964-1995;
professor emeritus, University of Chicago, since 1995;
department chairman anthropology, University of Chicago, 1969-1972. Associate professor, department chairman anthropology U. Rochester, 1960-1964. Visiting professor of history University of Michigan, 1967, 79, New York University, 1982, California Institute Technology, 1987.
Research fellow Australian National U., 1979, 82. Chairman joint commission on South Asia Social Science Research Council-American Council Learned Socs., 1983-1988. Speaker in field.
(This title traces the development of Indian civilization ...)
( Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire a...)
(This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays ...)
(This is the first collection of Bernard S. Cohn's essays ...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1954-1956. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Association Asian Studies (chairman S. Asia committee 1962-1964), American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (executive board 1969-1972).
Married Rella Israly, March 19, 1950. Children: Jenny Miriam, Abigail Catherine, Jacob Israly, Naomi Juliet.