Dirk Herbert Arnold Kolff | |
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| Born | February 11, 1938 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation(s) | Historian Indologist |
| Board member of | The Netherlands–India Friendship Association (President) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Alma mater | Leiden University (M.A. and Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | An Armed Peasantry and Its Allies: Rajput Tradition and State Formation, 1450–1850[1] (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan C. Heesterman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History Indology |
| Institutions | Former Chair of Indian History, Leiden University |
| Main interests | Armed peasants (North India) Dynamics of Mughal Empire Muslim rulers of India[2] |
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.
- ^ 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).
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