Dirk H. A. Kolff

Dirk Herbert Arnold Kolff
Born (1938-02-11) February 11, 1938 (age 86)
Rotterdam, the Netherlands[3]
NationalityDutch
EducationDoctor of Philosophy
Alma materLeiden University (M.A. and Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)Historian
Indologist
Board member ofThe Netherlands–India Friendship Association (President)
Academic career
DisciplineHistory
Indology
InstitutionsFormer Chair of Indian History, Leiden University
Main interestsArmed peasants (North India)
Dynamics of Mughal Empire
Muslim rulers of India[1]
ThesisAn Armed Peasantry and Its Allies: Rajput Tradition and State Formation, 1450–1850[2] (1983)
Doctoral advisorJan C. Heesterman

Dirk Herbert Arnold Kolff (born 11 February 1938) is a Dutch historian and Indologist. Born at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Kolff earned a doctorate degree from the Leiden University in 1983 with a doctoral thesis on the research subject of armed peasantry in northern India. He is a professor emeritus of modern South Asian history and the former Chair of Indian History at the Leiden University.

He is the co-founder of the European Association of South Asian Studies and the president of the Netherlands–India Friendship Association.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference JCH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Perlin, Frank (1993). The Invisible City: Monetary, Administrative, and Popular Infrastructures in Asia and Europe, 1500–1900. Variorum Reprints: Collected Studies Series, Volume 387 (illustrated ed.). Variorum (UK); Ashgate (USA). p. 72. ISBN 978-0860783428. LCCN 92036099. OCLC 1013427746. With respect to «fictional» aspects of clan formation, see D.H.A. Kolff, An Armed Peasantry and its Allies: Rajput Tradition and State Formation in Hindustan, 1450–1850, 1983 (Doctoral thesis presented to the University of Leiden).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference DS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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