Professor Fuller, of the London School of Economics, examines how official anthropologists overcame the empiricism of nineteenth century work on caste and religion, and investigates why the impact of their work was limited in informing the political situation in colonial India.

Professor Chris Fuller - 'Imperial empiricism and the decline of the Raj: caste, religion and official anthropology in the early twentieth century'

Audio files of the weekly seminars held at the Centre of South Asian Studies, as well as of other events in the Centre's academic programme.

Professor Robert Travers - 'A historian as petitioner: Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba'i and the late Mughal context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century India'

Professor Chris Fuller - 'Imperial empiricism and the decline of the Raj: caste, religion and official anthropology in the early twentieth century'

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