TY - BOOK AU - Dirks,Nicholas B. TI - Autobiography of an archive: a scholar's passage to India T2 - Cultures of history SN - 9788178244587 (hbk.) U1 - 301.0954 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Anthropology and history KW - India KW - Anthropological archives KW - Education, Higher KW - Philosophy KW - United States KW - Interdisciplinary research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index; Introduction : passage to India -- Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history -- Autobiography of an archive -- Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown -- Castes of mind -- Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact -- The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India -- Imperial sovereignty -- Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism -- The idea of empire -- In near ruins -- G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge -- South Asian studies : futures past -- Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account -- Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university -- The opening of the American mind ER -