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Stein was known for his wide-ranging participation in seminars and other South Asian scholarly work. He continued to write prolifically in his retirement and continued to spend significant amounts of time consulting with students and other scholars. He was known for his dry sense of humour and
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Stein's contributions as a research scholar was mainly focused on premodern and colonial South India. He spent the early 1960s formulating a hypothesis about the nature of "state" in South India. He was skeptical of the existence of a system of bureaucracy in the
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Stein and Jan Broek, a colleague from Minnesota, first devised the idea of a historical atlas of South Asia, and enlisted the backing of Charles Leslie Ames to establish a fellowship in historical cartography of the
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in Perspectives on Africa: A Reader on Culture, History and Representation, edited by R.R. Grinker and others,
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In retirement, Burt's writing productivity increased over time, with four more books written and a fifth,
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Stein, Burton (1985). "Notes on 'Peasant Insurgency' in Colonial Mysore: Event and Process".
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where he stayed for 17 years until 1983. He held visiting professorships at the
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Upon the completion of his PhD, Stein was appointed to a teaching post at the
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Stein, Burton (1985). "State Formation and Economy Reconsidered: Part One".
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Thomas Munro: The origins of the colonial state and his vision of empire
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usually responded to student questioning by posing counterquestions.
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India
Chicago, Illinois
Second World War
University of Illinois
Robert Crane
South India
Tirupati temple
University of Minnesota
Dorothy Stein
University of Hawaii
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
Jawaharlal Nehru University
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Chola Dynasty
tribal society
Aidan Southall
segmentary lineage
Indian subcontinent
Joseph E. Schwartzberg
Historical Atlas of South Asia
Peasant state and society in medieval South India
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780195635072
Thomas Munro: The origins of the colonial state and his vision of empire
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