Frontmatter
Introduction by Ranajit Guhapage VII
I. HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
1. An Anthropologist among the Historians: A Field Studypage 1
2. History and Anthropology: The State of Playpage 18
3. Anthropology and History in the 1980s: Towards a Rapprochementpage 50
II. INDIA AS A FIELD OF STUDY
4. Networks and Centres in the Integration of Indian Civilizationpage 78
5. The Pasts of an Indian Villagepage 88
6. Regions Subjective and Objective: Their Relation to the Study of Modern Indian History and Societypage 100
7. Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culturepage 136
8. Is There a New Indian History? Society and Social Change Under the Rajpage 172
9. African Models and Indian Historiespage 200
10. The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asiapage 224
III. UNTOUCHABLES
11. The Changing Status of a Depressed Castepage 255
12. The Changing Traditions of a Low Castepage 284
13. Madhopur Revisitedpage 299
14. Chamar Family in a North Indian Village: A Structural Contingentpage 308
IV. THE BRITISH IN BENARES
15. The Initial British Impact on India: A Case Study of the Benares Regionpage 320
16. Structural Change in Indian Rural Society 1596-1885page 343
17. The British in Benares: A Nineteenth Century Colonial Societypage 422
18. From Indian Status to British Contractpage 463
19. Political Systems in Eighteenth-Century India: The Benares Regionpage 483
20. The Recruitment and Training of British Civil Servants in Indiapage 500
21. Some Notes on Law and Change in North Indiapage 554
22. Anthropological Notes on Law and Disputes in North Indiapage 575
V. REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE
23. Representing Authority in Victorian Indiapage 632
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