Cohn's contributions included work on India's
caste system, by which he claimed that caste was solidified as a concept by the British codification of it, as well as the establishment of
historical anthropology as a means to link the disciplines of anthropology and history. This work intersected with earlier work about syncretism between these two disciplines by
Alfred L. Kroeber, as well as essays by
Clifford Geertz. Cohn's works include
Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996),
An Anthropologist Among the Historians (1987) and
India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971). His students, including
Nicholas Dirks,
Ronald Inden,
Vinay Lal,
Antoinette Burton, and
Ritty Lukose, have continued in the vein of his work. His work has been closely studied by members of
Subaltern Studies, especially
Ranajit Guha. ==External links==