The Bernard Cohn Omnibus: An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization

This Omnibus edition brings together three classic volumes by the renowned historian, Bernard Cohn, A Social Anthropology of a Civilization ; An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays ; and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge . In the first book, Cohn traced thedevelopment of Indian civilization by combining historical and anthropological approaches to the subject and provided a framework by example for the study of any complex society. The second book has become a legend of sorts, cited extensively in glowing terms by a whole host of scholars, who havetaken the essays in this book to be a starting point for a methodology which combines the historical and anthropological approaches. The third title is a brilliant collection of Cohn's writings from the last fifteen years, discussing areas in which the colonial impact has generally beenoverlooked.