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CV Prof. Dr. Dirk H.A. Kolff
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Date of Birth |
11 February 1938 |
Place of Birth |
Rotterdam |
Nationality |
Dutch |
Education
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Period |
1983 |
Degree |
Ph.D. |
Thesis |
Naukar, Rajput & Sepoy: The ethnohistory of the military labour market in Hindustan, 1450-1850. (Revised version published by Cambridge University Press in 1990) |
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Period |
1967 |
Degree |
Master of Arts |
Work Experience
1995-present |
Secretary / treasurer of the European Association of South Asian Studies |
1994-present |
Member of the Board of the Netherlands-India Friendship Association; 1998-2002 chairman. |
1994-present |
Chairman of the International Centre of Leiden University |
1971-present |
Lecturer of Indian history at Leiden University |
1992-1997 |
Director of the Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) at Leiden |
1990 |
Appointed Professor at Leiden University |
1968-1970 |
Library and archival research on Indian agrarian history in Bundelkhand, India |
1967-1968 |
Library and archival research on Indian agrarian history in London |
Publications
Publications in the fields of Dutch East India Company (VOC) history, a comparative history of British India and Dutch East Indies, on Johan Huizinga as Indologist, and on Colonial law in British India.
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