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 holds a Ph.D. from the University of London. His studies focus on Ancient India and other subjects.
Among Trautmann's many published works are:
Bryer, Anthony; Gough, Michael; Trautmann, Thomas R.; Young, L. K. (1969). Byzantium and the ancient east. Paul Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0-600-13943-0. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1971). Kautilya and the Arthasastra. Leiden: BRILL. OCLC 576363603. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1974). Kinship and History in South Asia. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeastern Asian Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 978-0-88386-417-3. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1981). Dravidian Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23703-1. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1987). Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06457-7. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2008). Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship : with a new introduction and appendices by the author. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6006-1. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1992). "The revolution in ethnological time". Man : a monthly record of anthropological science (379). OCLC 715283212. Trautmann, Thomas R.; Kabelac, Karl Sanford (1994). "The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. 84 (6-7). ISBN 978-0-87169-846-9. Hughes, Diane Owen; Trautmann, Thomas R., eds. (1996). Time: histories and ethnologies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06579-0. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1997). Aryans and British India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-585-10445-4. Godelier, Maurice; Trautmann, Thomas R.; Fat, Franklin Edmunc Tjon Sie, eds. (1998). Transformation of Kinship. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-768-0. Trautmann, Thomas R. (1999). "Hullabaloo about Telugu". South Asia Research. New Delhi: Sage Publications India. 19 (1). OCLC 500250081. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2002). Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93190-9. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2005). The Aryan Debate. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-569200-6. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2006). Languages and nations: the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24455-9. Trautmann, Thomas R.; Cuntaram, Irāma (2007). Tirāviṭac cāṉṟu: Ellīsūm tirāviṭa moḻikaḷum (in Tamil). Cennai: காலச்சுவடு பதிப்பகம். ISBN 978-81-89359-51-5. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2009). The Madras school of Orientalism: producing knowledge in colonial South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-806314-8. Trautmann, Thomas R. (2009). The clash of chronologies : ancient India in the modern world. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-81-906186-5-6. Trautmann, Thomas R.; Cogswell, Jim; Paymal, Elisabeth (2011). India: brief history of a civilization. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973632-4. Trautmann, Thomas R.; Talbot, Cynthia, eds. (2011). Knowing India : colonial and modern constructions of the past : essays in hour of Thomas R. Trautmann. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-93-8040-303-8. Trautmann, Thomas R.; Whiteley, Peter M. (2012). Crow-Omaha : new light on a classic problem of kinship analysis. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-0790-0. 