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The British in India, 1: Readings

Bernard Cohn, “The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia”, in Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp.224-254.

Bernard Cohn, “The British in Benaras: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Society,” in Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 422-462.

Bernard Cohn, “From Indian Status to British Contract”, in Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 463-499.

Bernard Cohn, “Representing Authority in Victorian India”, in Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 632-682.

Nicholas Dirks, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Bernard Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press).