Burton Stein
American Indologist
Burton Stein's Degrees
- PhD Indology University of Chicago
- Masters Indology University of Chicago
- Bachelors History University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Burton Stein was an American historian, whose area of specialization was India. Life and career Stein was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois and served in the Second World War, before commencing tertiary study at the now disused Navy Pier facility that in 1945 was the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois. Stein was an unusual case in that he never completed a bachelor's degree. He was admitted directly into a Master of Arts program at the University of Chicago, finishing his masters in 1954 under the supervision of Robert Crane. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation in 1957 on the economic functions of South India's medieval Tirupati temple.
Burton Stein's Published Works
Published Works
- Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1983) (279)
- The Economic Function of a Medieval South Indian Temple (1960) (89)
- A history of India (1999) (71)
- Land and Caste in South India; Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency during the Nineteenth Century. (1966) (66)
- Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and His Vision of Empire (1990) (59)
- State Formation and Economy Reconsidered (1985) (57)
- Circulation and the Historical Geography of Tamil Country (1977) (50)
- Caste in Tamil culture : the religious foundations of sudra domination in Tamil Sri Lanka (1983) (45)
- Religion, politics and history in India : collected papers in Indian sociology (1971) (34)
- Vijayanagara c. 1350-1564 (1982) (33)
- Institutions and economic change in South Asia (1996) (25)
- South India: Some General Considerations of the Region and its Early History (1982) (17)
- Essays on South India (1975) (16)
- Eighteenth Century India: Another view (1989) (14)
- The making of agrarian policy in British India, 1770-1900 (1992) (14)
- The Economic History of India: A Bibliographic Essay (1961) (12)
- THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA (1990) (12)
- South Indian temples : an analytical reconsideration (1978) (12)
- South Indian History and Society: Studies from Inscriptions, A.D. 850-1800 (1984) (12)
- Temples in Tamil Country, 1300-1750 A.D (1977) (12)
- Politics, peasants and the deconstruction of feudalism in medieval India (1985) (11)
- The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara (1990) (10)
- Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605–1690; A Study in the Interrelations of European Commerce and Traditional Economies. By Tapan Raychaudhuri. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. Pp. xi, 230. Guilders 18 (1963) (8)
- Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India During the Thirteenth Century . By Khaliq Ahmad Nizami. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1961. xxvi, 421, Index, n.p. (1966) (8)
- Economic Change in Rural India: Land Tenure and Reform in Uttar Pradesh, 1800-1955 (1964) (6)
- The Currency System (1982) (6)
- All the kings' mana : papers on medieval South Indian history (1984) (6)
- Notes On 'Peasant Insurgency' in Colonial Mysore: Event and Process (1985) (5)
- A Decade of Historical Efflorescence (1990) (4)
- Sher Shah and his times : an old story retold by the author after decades from a fresh standpoint (1966) (3)
- Mirat-I-Ahmadi; A Persian History of Gujerat (English Translation) Translated from the Persian Original of Ali Muhammad Khan (1967) (2)
- Early Indian Historiography: A Conspiracy Hypothesis1 (1969) (2)
- Introduction (1977) (2)
- The Far South (1982) (1)
- Sangam Polity: The Administration and Social Life of the Sangam Tamils by N. Subrahmanian, Asia Publishing House, 1966 (Rs. 35) (1968) (1)
- East-Indian Economic Problems of the Age of Cornwallis and Raffles. By H. R. C. Wright. London: Luzac and Company, 1961. Pp. ix, 371. 42s (1963) (1)
- Utilizing the Visitors from South Asia (1962) (1)
- The city and the kingdom (1990) (1)
- Book Reviews : Symbols of Substance; Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamil Nadu by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 349 (1994) (0)
- JAS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1965) (0)
- Book Review:The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 Steven Runciman (1961) (0)
- Book Reviews : Towards a New Formation; South Indian Society under VijayanagarRule by Noboru Karashima. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xii, 294 (1994) (0)
- JAS volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1966) (0)
- Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation . By W. Howard Wriggins. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960, xiii, 470. Bibliography, Index, Maps and Chart. $12.50. (1960) (0)
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.): Money and the market in India 1100–1700 . (Oxford in India Readings. Themes in Indian History.) ix, 316 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1994. £13.50. (1996) (0)
- Book Review:The Emergence of the Modern Indonesian Elite Robert Van Niel (1961) (0)
- JAS volume 28 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1969) (0)
- Book Reviews : Architecture and Art of Southem India; Vijayanagara and the Successor States by George Michell. (The New Cambridge History of India, volume 1.6) Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxi, 300. Maps, plans, photographic plates; bibliographical essay (1996) (0)
- Imperial collapse and aftermath: 1542–1700 (1990) (0)
- Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya: The making of early medieval India . xii, 270 pp. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994, Rs. 350, £14.95. (1996) (0)
- Book Reviews : Kancipuram in Early South Indian History, by T. V. Mahalingam (Madras : Asia Publishing House, 1969), pp. vii-243 (1970) (0)
- Political economy and society: the sixteenth century (1990) (0)
- The New Cambridge History of India. Volume I, part 2, Vijayanagara. (1991) (0)
- Book Reviews : A History of India by Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund. Croom Helm: 1986. Pp. 409 (1988) (0)
- JAS volume 27 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Early Indian Land Grants and State Economy (1989) (0)
- Communities, States, and 'Classical' India (1997) (0)
- John R. McLane: Land and local kingship in eighteenth-century Bengal. (Cambridge South Asian Studies, 53.) xxv, 342 pp. Cambridge, etc.; Cambridge University Press, 1993. £30, $59.95. (1995) (0)
- JAS volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Book Reviews : Caste, Conflict and Ideology; Mahatma Jotirao Phule and low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India by Rosalind O'Hanlon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge South Asian Studies, No.30), 1985. Pp.326 + xiii. Price: £30.00 (1985) (0)
- International Relations and Politics (1984) (0)
- Peter Robb (ed.): Dalit movements and the meaning of labour in India . (SOAS Studies on South Asia.) vii, 354 pp. Delhi etc.: Oxford University Press, 1993. £13.95. (1995) (0)
- Stephen P. Blake, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, 1639–1739 , Cambridge South Asian Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Pp. 242. (1992) (0)
- Book Reviews : Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rāyavācakamu by Phillip B. Wagoner. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. Pp. ix, 263 (1995) (0)
- Western Karnataka, Its Agrarian Relations, A.D. 1500-1800@@@Agrarian Economy in Andhara [sic] under Vijaynagar (1993) (0)
- Mirat-I-Ahmadi; A Persian History of Gujerat Translated from the Persian Original of Ali Muhammad Khan (1967) (0)
- JAS volume 23 issue 1 Front matter (1963) (0)
- The Epic of Palnāḍu: A Study and Translation of Palāṭi Virula Katha . By Gene H. Roghair. xix, 363 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, List of Principal Characters, Index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. $54. (1984) (0)
- The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650 . By Sanjay Subrahmanyam. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x, 401 pp. $54.50. (1991) (0)
- The medieval past: continuity and disjunction (1990) (0)
- Book Reviews : Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent by Robert W. Stem. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 251 (1995) (0)
- JAS volume 19 issue 2 Front matter (1960) (0)
- JAS volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1968) (0)
- The Economic Development of Ceylon. (1955) (0)
- South Asia (1997) (0)
- JAS volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1966) (0)
- Book Reviews : Lifting the Veil: Communal Violence and Communal Harmony in Contemporary India by Ali Asghar Engineer. London: Sangam Books, 1995. Pp. vii + 347 (1996) (0)
- Thomas Munro and the Impact of His Work (1991) (0)
- JAS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1964) (0)
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