Dirk H.A. Kolff, Ph.D. (1983) in History, Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of South Asian History, Leiden University. His publications mainly deal with the early modern history of India.

'If one accepts this limitation (this being a work of administrative history), one can praise Kolff’s work as a unique contribution to modern Indian historiography. Hardly any other work has provided such deep insights into the interaction of British and Indian agency in the early period of colonial rule.'Dietmar Rothermund, Orientalische Literaturzeitung'Grass in Their Mouths is an important and neglected study of an important and neglected subject: the East India Company's struggle to establish an effective administration in the vast north Indian plains in the early nineteenth century.(...) a book like this is a definitive work: the achievement of a lifetime: an expression of the highest-possible methodological standards.'Clive Dewey, Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 74, No. 4 (November) 2015

Dirk H.A. Kolff, Ph.D. (1983) in History, Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of South Asian History, Leiden University. His publications mainly deal with the early modern history of India.

'If one accepts this limitation (this being a work of administrative history), one can praise Kolff’s work as a unique contribution to modern Indian historiography. Hardly any other work has provided such deep insights into the interaction of British and Indian agency in the early period of colonial rule.'Dietmar Rothermund, Orientalische Literaturzeitung'Grass in Their Mouths is an important and neglected study of an important and neglected subject: the East India Company's struggle to establish an effective administration in the vast north Indian plains in the early nineteenth century.(...) a book like this is a definitive work: the achievement of a lifetime: an expression of the highest-possible methodological standards.'Clive Dewey, Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 74, No. 4 (November) 2015

Dirk H.A. Kolff, Ph.D. (1983) in History, Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of South Asian History, Leiden University. His publications mainly deal with the early modern history of India.

'If one accepts this limitation (this being a work of administrative history), one can praise Kolff’s work as a unique contribution to modern Indian historiography. Hardly any other work has provided such deep insights into the interaction of British and Indian agency in the early period of colonial rule.'Dietmar Rothermund, Orientalische Literaturzeitung'Grass in Their Mouths is an important and neglected study of an important and neglected subject: the East India Company's struggle to establish an effective administration in the vast north Indian plains in the early nineteenth century.(...) a book like this is a definitive work: the achievement of a lifetime: an expression of the highest-possible methodological standards.'Clive Dewey, Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 74, No. 4 (November) 2015