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The essays and lectures that make up this book have been written over many years, beginning with a paper that started life as a “job talk” in 1987 for a tenured position at the University of Michigan. That paper, entitled “Castes of Mind,” was expanded and finally revised for publication in the journal Representations and is included here because of its centrality to much of the scholarly work I did during the decade I spent in Michigan. I am grateful to my colleagues in the departments of history and anthropology at Michigan not just for hiring me but for offering an extraordinarily stimulating environment in which to think about the history and anthropology of caste in India as well as the larger comparative and interdisciplinary questions that enabled the writing both of numerous essays (many of them published here) and the book I subsequently wrote by the same title. Among many Michigan colleagues, I would like especially to thank Tom Trautmann, Bill Sewell, Sherry Ortner, Geoff Eley, (the late) Fernando Coronil, and Terry McDonald. I was delighted when Val Daniel and Ann Stoler came to Michigan two years after I arrived. Val has always been my advisor in matters anthropological, and both Val and Ann played important roles in helping me launch the interdepartmental program in anthropology and history; I owe Ann special thanks for her role over many years in helping me think through critical issues in the anthropology of empire and the ethnography of archives. I have also been indebted to many other colleagues, most importantly Gyan Prakash and Partha Chatterjee, for intellectual exchange, support, and sustenance over the years. David Ludden has been a friend, critic, and resource. I am also grateful to Arjun Appadurai, Chris Fuller, Sheldon Pollock, and Peter van der Veer for their insights and inspiration over the course of my career.

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