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.
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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