Thomas Trautmann

Thomas R. Trautmann is a renowned American historian and Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Arthashastra, the ancient Hindu text on kinship. Trautmann has mentored many students during his professorship at the University of Michigan. He is widely considered to be one of the most well-cited historians of our time. He has written an accessible introduction to the Arthashastra, which was a part of The Story of Indian Business Series by best-selling author, Gurcharan Das. Trautmann's work has been credited with illuminating the underlying economic philosophy that governed ancient Indian kinship. Das has pointed to the invaluable lessons this work provides for the modern age.

Trautmann has served as director of the University of Michigan History Department, as well as head of the Center for South Asian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London.[1] His studies focus on Ancient India and other subjects.

Works

Among Trautmann's many published works are:

  • Bryer, Anthony; Gough, Michael; Trautmann, Thomas R.; Young, L. K. (1969). Byzantium and the ancient east. Paul Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0-600-13943-0.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1971). Kautilya and the Arthasastra. Leiden: BRILL. OCLC 576363603.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1974). Kinship and History in South Asia. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeastern Asian Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 978-0-88386-417-3.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1981). Dravidian Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23703-1.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1987). Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06457-7.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship : with a new introduction and appendices by the author. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6006-1.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1992). "The revolution in ethnological time". Man : a monthly record of anthropological science (379). OCLC 715283212.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R.; Kabelac, Karl Sanford (1994). "The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. 84 (6–7). ISBN 978-0-87169-846-9.
  • Hughes, Diane Owen; Trautmann, Thomas R., eds. (1996). Time: histories and ethnologies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06579-0.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1997). Aryans and British India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-585-10445-4.
  • Godelier, Maurice; Trautmann, Thomas R.; Fat, Franklin Edmunc Tjon Sie, eds. (1998). Transformation of Kinship. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-768-0.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (1999). "Hullabaloo about Telugu". South Asia Research. New Delhi: Sage Publications India. 19 (1). OCLC 500250081.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2002). Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93190-9.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2005). The Aryan Debate. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-569200-6.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2006). Languages and nations: the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24455-9.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R.; Cuntaram, Irāma (2007). Tirāviṭac cāṉṟu: Ellīsūm tirāviṭa moḻikaḷum (in Tamil). Cennai: காலச்சுவடு பதிப்பகம். ISBN 978-81-89359-51-5.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2009). The Madras school of Orientalism: producing knowledge in colonial South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-806314-8.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R. (2009). The clash of chronologies : ancient India in the modern world. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-81-906186-5-6.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R.; Cogswell, Jim; Paymal, Elisabeth (2011). India: brief history of a civilization. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973632-4.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R.; Talbot, Cynthia, eds. (2011). Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in hour of Thomas R. Trautmann. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-93-8040-303-8.
  • Trautmann, Thomas R.; Whiteley, Peter M. (2012). Crow-Omaha : new light on a classic problem of kinship analysis. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-0790-0.

References

  1. ↑ Faculty Profile

Further reading

  • Bayly, C. A. (8 August 1997). "What language hath joined". The Times Literary Supplement. - review of 1997 work
  • Baskaran, S. Theordore (4–17 July 2009). "Kinship and Language". Frontline. 26 (14). - interview
  • Aryans and British India — a review by the Indian historian, D. N. Jha.



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