Thomas R. Trautmann

Thomas R. Trautmann

Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian and a Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He has published many works including Kautilya and the Arthasastra (1971), Kinship and History in South Asia (1974), Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (1987), Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India (2002), and co-authored India: brief history of a civilization (2011).