Dirk H. A. Kolff

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

  1. ^ 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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