Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Passage to India 1
5. Part I. Autobiography
6. 1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History 27
7. 2. Autobiography of an Archive 50
8. 3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown 70
9. Part II. History and Anthropology
10. 4. Castes of Mind: The Original Caste 83
11. 5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact 109
12. 6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India 132
13. Part III. Empire
14. 7. Imperial Sovereignty 171
15. 8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism 199
16. 9. The Idea of Empire 211
17. Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge
18. 10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century 231
19. 11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge 249
20. 12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past 265
21. Part V. University
22. 13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account 293
23. 14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University 303
24. 15. The Opening of the American Mind 321
25. Notes 339
26. Permissions 371
27. Index 373