History and anthropology in South Asia: Rethinking the archive

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 89-106

  Mathur, Saloni ^a  

^a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Anthropol   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Indian historiography; Postcolonial studies; Subaltern studies; Village studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002169008     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.29.1.89     Document Type: Article

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