Michael Katten is an independent scholar of the History of Modern South Asia, and is based in Berkeley, CA. His interests and publications center on the politics of culture in 18th and 19th-century South India.

Katten gives us four stimulating historiographical-cum-historical essays that deserve reading and pondering over. He is to be congratulated for writing an ambitious and stimulating book. -- Nita Kumar American Historical Review

Michael Katten is an independent scholar of the History of Modern South Asia, and is based in Berkeley, CA. His interests and publications center on the politics of culture in 18th and 19th-century South India.

Katten gives us four stimulating historiographical-cum-historical essays that deserve reading and pondering over. He is to be congratulated for writing an ambitious and stimulating book. -- Nita Kumar American Historical Review

Michael Katten is an independent scholar of the History of Modern South Asia, and is based in Berkeley, CA. His interests and publications center on the politics of culture in 18th and 19th-century South India.

Katten gives us four stimulating historiographical-cum-historical essays that deserve reading and pondering over. He is to be congratulated for writing an ambitious and stimulating book. -- Nita Kumar American Historical Review