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Knowing India honors the contributions of Thomas R Trautmann to the fields of anthropology and history by presenting research from leading scholars who are his contemporaries colleagues and former students Divided into four sections the 17 essays in this volume look at modes of conceptualizing and classifying traditional South Asian society perceptions of the precolonial past in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and aspects of precolonial Indias historical development and writing Contributors include reputed contemporaries of Trautmann such as Madhav Deshpande David Lorenzen Romila Thapar and Sylvia Vatuk as well as former students like Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Bhavani Raman and Parna Sengupta who engage with and take off from questions raised by Trautmann Also containing essays by Michael Dodson Kenneth Hall Anne Hardgrove Judith Irvine Carla Sinopoli and Cynthia Talbot the book ends with three tributes to Trautmann by Tom Fricke Richard H Davis and Rama Mantena 424 pp.…