Hermann Kulke

Hermann Kulke, an Indologist, was Professor of South and Southeast Asian History in the Department of History, Kiel University. He was born 1938 in Berlin. After receiving his Ph.D. in Indology from Freiburg University in 1967 he taught for 21 years he taught at the Southasia Institute of Heidelberg University (SAI).

He was founder-member of the Orissa Research Project (ORP) of the Southasia Institute (1970-5) and was coordinator of the second ORP.

He was Visiting Professor at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1978/9), Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1986) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1992), and Fellow of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (1987)

Publications

* Cidambaramahatmya (1970)
* Co-editor of The Cult of Jagannath (1978)
* Regional Tradition of Orissa (1978, with A. Eschmann and G.C. Tripathi)
* Jagannatha Cult (1979, in German)
* Gajapaati Kingship (1979, in German)
* Co-author of A History of India (2004, with D. Rothermund)
* Hinduism Reconsidered (1989, 2nd ed. 1997), with G.D. Sontheimer)
* Kings and Cults - State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia (1993)
* Editor of The State in India 1000-1600 (1993).

Sources

http://www.bagchee.com/books.php?id=4271

http://www.histosem.uni-kiel.de/personen/kulke.html

Schnepel, Burkhard; Berkemer, Georg: History of the Model, in: Berkemer, Georg; Frenz, Margret (eds.), Sharing Sovereignty - The Little Kingdom in South Asia, Berlin 2003

Berkemer, Georg; Frenz, Margret: The Role of Hermann Kulke, in: Berkemer, Georg; Frenz, Margret (eds.), Sharing Sovereignty - The Little Kingdom in South Asia, Berlin 2003