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Nicholas Dirks

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#564

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#147

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Nicholas Dirks's Degrees

PhD History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas B. Dirks is an American academic and the former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. In June 2020, Dirks was named president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences.

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Nicholas Dirks's Published Works

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Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (2002) (479)
Colonialism and Culture (1995) (429)
The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (1988) (353)
Culture/power/history : a reader in contemporary social theory (1994) (277)
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (2006) (206)
Castes of Mind (2001) (166)
Beyond The Fringe: The Nation State, Colonialism, and The Technologies of Power* (1988) (118)
History as a Sign of the Modern (1990) (106)
The Original Caste: Power, History and Hierarchy in South Asia (1989) (76)
The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India (1988) (73)
The Scandal of Empire (2009) (66)
Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact (1988) (62)
The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India (1997) (60)
From Little King to Landlord: Property, Law, and the Gift under the Madras Permanent Settlement (1986) (44)
Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History (2002) (44)
In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory At The End Of The Century (1998) (40)
Political Authority and Structural Change in Early South Indian History (1976) (31)
The Pasts of a Pāḷaiyakārar: The Ethnohistory of a South Indian Little King (1982) (28)
The structure and meaning of political relations in a south Indian little kingdom (1979) (21)
ARCHIVE, DISCIPLINE, STATE: POWER AND KNOWLEDGE IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (2004) (20)
EDWARD SAID AND ANTHROPOLOGY (2004) (20)
The structure and meaning of political relations in a south Indian little kingdom 1 (1979) (16)
The Bernard Cohn omnibus (2006) (11)
Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar's Passage to India (2015) (11)
The Hollow Crown: List of archives and record offices (1988) (8)
Colonial and Postcolonial Histories: comparative reflections on the legacies of empire (2004) (8)
The Hollow Crown: COLONIAL MEDIATIONS: CONTRADICTIONS UNDER THE RAJ (1988) (7)
Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule (2002) (6)
G.S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge ∗ (2013) (3)
Introduction: Passage to India (2015) (3)
Scholars, Spies, and Global Studies. (2012) (3)
The Home and the World: The Invention of Modernity in Colonial India (1993) (3)
What is it like to take a leadership role at a university (2018) (2)
CULTURE/POWER/HISTORY SERIES PROSPECTUS SHERRY ORTNERI GEOFF ELEYl (1989) (1)
Bringing the Company Back In (2015) (1)
Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History (2002) (1)
The Liberal Arts and the University: Tracing the Origins and Structure of Undergraduate Education in the US and at the University of California. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.7.15. (2015) (1)
Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan (1989) (1)
2. Autobiography of an Archive (2015) (1)
KNOWLEDGE AND EUROPEAN EMPIRE-BUILDING IN ASIA (2004) (1)
The Liberal Arts and the University: Lessons for China in the History of Undergraduate Education in the USA and at the University of California (2016) (1)
Three. The Ethnographic State (2002) (1)
The Ethnographic State: The Ritualization of Caste in Colonial India (2004) (1)
The Hollow Crown: The study of state and society in India (1988) (1)
Culture/Power/History: Series Prospectus (1989) (1)
Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule (2002) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The early history of the Pudukkottai region (1988) (0)
Franz Boas and the American University (2015) (0)
CSS volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
INTRODUCTION (0)
Bombay: The 26th International Film Festival of India: January 10–20, 1995 (1995) (0)
The Home and the World (1990) (0)
South Asian Studies (2015) (0)
8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The colonization of the political order: land settlements, political intervention, and structural change (1988) (0)
SO YOU WANT TO BE A HISTORIAN? (2022) (0)
Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament (2002) (0)
3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown (2015) (0)
CIVIL SOCIETY IN COLONIAL INDIA (2016) (0)
Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom (2002) (0)
Berkeley's New Approach to Global Engagement: Early and Current Efforts to Become More International. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.12.15. (2015) (0)
CSS volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime (2002) (0)
15. The Opening of the American Mind (2015) (0)
4. Castes of Mind: The Original Caste (2015) (0)
The Policing of Tradition (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Pudukkottai State (1988) (0)
2. The Home and the World (2020) (0)
12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Tondaiman Raj: 1686–1801 (1988) (0)
9. The Idea of Empire (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Appendix: Land and privilege: inams in Pudukkottai (1988) (0)
An educational history of the future (2021) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Glossary of terms (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Preface (1988) (0)
Ethnohistory and the Indian state (1988) (0)
Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism (2002) (0)
Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: (2021) (0)
Peasant History in South India . By David Ludden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xix, 310 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $45. (1987) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The historical context of the old regime (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Madras Presidency, 1900 (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: CAMBRIDGE SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES (1988) (0)
Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive (2002) (0)
The arts and sciences: The two cultures and the public face of science (2022) (0)
The structure of social and political relations in a south Indian little kingdom (1983) (0)
Scholars and Spies (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Agrarian rebellion? Last gasp of the old regime (1988) (0)
One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste (2002) (0)
Annals of the Archive (2015) (0)
Coda: The Burden of the Past (2020) (0)
Fantastic Community Brian Keith Axel (2002) (0)
Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste (2002) (0)
CSS volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1996) (0)
List of maps (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Pudukkottai and the old regime: gift, order, and authority in a south Indian little kingdom (1988) (0)
Ritual and Resistance: (0)
Temples and society (1988) (0)
THE INVENTION OF MODERNITY IN COLONIAL INDIA (2007) (0)
Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste (2002) (0)
The Hollow Crown: References (1988) (0)
7. Imperial Sovereignty (2015) (0)
CSS volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
From little king to landlord: property, law and the gift under permanent settlement (1983) (0)
Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea (2002) (0)
Ritual and Resistance (2015) (0)
Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account (2010) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the old regime (1988) (0)
American Knowledge of the World (2021) (0)
The Hollow Crown: The theatre state: princely politics in colonial south India (1988) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Royal Kallars (1988) (0)
In Near Ruins (2015) (0)
Seven. The Conversion of Caste (2002) (0)
14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University (2015) (0)
THE LIBERAL ARTS AND THE UNIVERSITY* Tracing the Origins and Structure Of Undergraduate Education In the US and at the University Of California (2015) (0)
The Hollow Crown: Temples and conflict: the changing context of worship (1988) (0)
Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi (2002) (0)
The Opening of the American Mind (2015) (0)

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