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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Roger Trautmann is an American historian, cultural anthropologist, and Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is considered a leading expert on the Arthashastra, the ancient Hindu text on statecraft, economic policy, and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. Trautmann has mentored many students during his tenure at the University of Michigan. His studies focus on ancient India, the history of anthropology, and other related subjects. Trautmann's work in Indology has been credited with illuminating the underlying economic philosophy that governed ancient Indian kinship. He has also written book-length studies on both Dravidian and American Indian kinship. His most recent study concerns the use of the elephant in ancient India.

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Aryans and British India (1998) (176)
The enigma of the gift (2000) (148)
Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (1988) (104)
Languages and nations (2006) (67)
Transformations of kinship (1998) (59)
Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras (2006) (54)
THE REVOLUTION IN ETHNOLOGICAL TIME (1992) (49)
Elephants and Kings (2019) (40)
Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra. A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text@@@Kautilya and the Arthasastra. A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text (1972) (38)
Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis (2012) (37)
Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture (1980) (35)
Time: Histories and Ethnologies (1998) (34)
Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History (2015) (33)
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD: EXCAVATING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH ASIA (2002) (30)
Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text . By Thomas R. Trautmann. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. xviii, 227 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 42 Du. guilders. (1972) (28)
A Metrical Original for the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra?@@@A Metrical Original for the Kautiliya Arthasastra? (1968) (26)
The whole history of kinship terminology in three chapters (2001) (24)
The Aryan Debate (2005) (22)
Does India Have History? Does History Have India? (2012) (21)
The Munda of central India : an account of their social organization (1994) (18)
Hullabaloo About Telugu (1999) (17)
The Madras school of orientalism : producing knowledge in colonial South India (2009) (17)
Arthashastra: The Science of Wealth (2012) (16)
Imagining the human in deep time (2011) (13)
Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian Inscriptions of the Indus Civilization: A First Announcement . By Asko Parpola, Seppo Koskenniemi, Simo Parpola, and Pentti Aalto. Copenhagen: The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1969. 71 pp. Notes, Tables, Maps, Index, n.p. (1970) (8)
India: Brief History of a Civilization (2010) (7)
Kinship and History in South Asia (1974) (6)
The Racial Theory of Indian Civilization (1997) (6)
The Problem of the Bid'a in the Light of an Arabic Manuscript of the I4th Century (1964) (5)
The Clash of Chronologies: Ancient India in the Modern World (2020) (5)
India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies (2000) (5)
Consanguineous marriage in Pali literature. (1973) (4)
Mission Statement Responses (2013) (4)
Length of Generation and Reign in Ancient India (1969) (4)
Discovering Aryan and Dravidian in British India: A tale of two cities (2004) (4)
The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan (1994) (3)
Decoding Dravidian Kinship: Morgan and McIlvaine (1984) (3)
Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in honor of Thomas R. Trautmann (2011) (3)
Dr Johnson and the pandits: Imagining the perfect dictionary in colonial Madras (2001) (3)
The Mosaic Ethnology of Asiatick Jones (1997) (3)
Kingship and Authority in South Asia . (South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Publication no. 3), edited by J. F. Richards (Madison: South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978). (1981) (3)
Licchavi-Dauhitra (1972) (3)
Towards a Deep History of Mahouts (2016) (3)
Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture@@@The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan (1996) (2)
A bibliography of Ceylon (1972) (2)
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society . By J. C. Heesterman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x, 255 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). (1988) (2)
Dravidian Kinship and the Anthropology of Lewis Henry Morgan (1988) (2)
On the Translation of the Term Varna (1964) (2)
The Past in the Present (2011) (2)
WHIG ETHNOLOGY FROM LOCKE TO MORGAN (2013) (2)
Bibliotheca Malabarica: Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg's Tamil Library (2014) (2)
Rituals of the Kandyan State by H. L. Seneviratne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). (1981) (2)
WHIG ETHNOLOGY FROM LOCKE TO MORGAN (2013) (2)
The House That Morgan Built (2013) (1)
The structure and composition of the Kautiliya "Arthasastra". (1968) (1)
The gift in India (2017) (1)
7. Southeast Asia (2015) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1998) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2000) (0)
After the war elephant (2019) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2004) (0)
Foreign Influence in Ancient India . By R. A. Jairazbhoy. pp. xii + 195. Asia Publishing House, London. 1964. 54s. (1965) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1999) (0)
Michael J. Hathaway, Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China .Berkeley:University of California Press,2013. (2014) (0)
Comments: Axel Michaels’s article (2020) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1999) (0)
Philology and Ethnology (1997) (0)
Dwijendra Narayan Jha: Revenue system in post-Maurya and Guptga times . xv, 235 pp. Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1967. Rs.25. (1968) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1999) (0)
Founders of Western Indology: August Wilhelm Von Schlegel and Henry Thomas Colebrooke in Correspondence 1820-1837 (2016) (0)
A Bibliography of Ceylon . By H. A. I. Goonetileke. Zug, Switzerland, Inter-Documentation Co., 1970. Two Volumes. 865 pp. Author Index. Bibliography, n. p. (1972) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2000) (0)
Early Indian Economic History. By R.N. Saletore. Totowa, N.J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Pp. xv + 859. $27.50 (1977) (0)
Canakya-Niti-Text-Tradition. Volume II, Part II, Canakya's Six Versions of Maxims: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Ur-Text.@@@The Subhasita-Samgraha-s as Treasuries of Canakya's Sayings. (1969) (0)
COMMENT ON GERMAN DZIEBEL (2021) (0)
Vishwambhar Sharan Pathak: Ancient historians of India: a studyin historical biographies, xvi, 184 pp. London: Asia Publishing House, [1966]. 20s. (1967) (0)
Life in north-eastern India in pre-Mauryan times (with special reference to c. 600 b.c. -325 b.c. ). By Madan Mohan Singh, pp. xxv, 308. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1967. Rs. 25.00. (1970) (0)
Lallanji Gopal: The economic life of northern India, c. A.D. 700-1200 . xxiv, 306 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965. Rs. 15. (1966) (0)
Question de parenté India and the Study of Kinship Terminologies (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
Book Reviews (2012) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2004) (0)
Hugh Tinker: South Asia: a short history. viii, 287 pp., 8 plates. London: Pall Mall Press, 1966. 42s. (1967) (0)
Elephants and Indian kingship (2019) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1998) (0)
‘ “ Horizontal ” and “ vertical ” skewing : similar objectives , two solutions ? (2015) (0)
SOURCES AND CREDITS (2019) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2004) (0)
TRAUTMANN AND WHITELEY’sCOMMENT ON D. READ “GENERATIVE CROW-OMAHA TERMINOLOGIES” (2018) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2002) (0)
COMMENT ON DZIEBEL (2021) (0)
Raymond Grew 1930–2020 (2021) (0)
Megasthenes on the Military Livestock of Chandragupta and the Making of the First Indian Empire (2021) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2001) (0)
8. Drawing the balance, looking ahead (2015) (0)
2. War elephants (2015) (0)
Harsha: A Political Study . By D. Devahuti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. xx, 294 pp. Appendixes, Genealogical Tables, Bibliography, Index. $13.00. (1972) (0)
Mallapurāṇa. Ed. by Bhogilal Jayachandbhai Sandesara and Ramanlal Nagarji Mehta. (Gaekwad's Oriental Series No. 144). pp. 32 + 95; 5 pages of (8) photographs. Baroda Oriental Institute. 1964. Rs. 10. (1965) (0)
3. Structures of use: caturanga, vahana, vyuha (2015) (0)
Arthur Llewellyn Basham (1914-1986) (Obituary) (1988) (0)
4. Elephant knowledge (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
1. The retreat and persistance of elephants (2015) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2002) (0)
J. Duncan M. Derrett: Religion, law and the state in India . 615pp. London: Fader and Fader, 1968. 90s. (1969) (0)
The spread of the war elephant (2019) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2001) (0)
D. C. Sircar: The Guhilas of KiṢkindhā . (Calcutta Sanskrit College Research Series, No. xxxiv. Studies, No. 18.) xv, 87 pp., 8 plates. Calcutta: Sanskrit College, 1965. Rs. 10. (1966) (0)
6. The Near East, North Africa, Europe (2015) (0)
Race Science Versus Sanskrit (1997) (0)
Editorial Foreword (2003) (0)
The Paramaras (c. 800-1305). (1972) (0)
Editorial Foreword (1998) (0)
Ram Sharan Sharma: Indian feudalism: c. 300-1200 . (Centre of Advanced Study in Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta. Lectures and Seminars, No. 1-A (Lectures).) xiii, 320 pp. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1965. Rs. 15. (1966) (0)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Mission Statement (2013) (0)
5. North India, South India, Sri Lanka (2015) (0)

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