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Colonial Anthropology : Technologies and Discourses of Dominance, 1886–1936, Hardback Book

Colonial Anthropology : Technologies and Discourses of Dominance, 1886–1936 Hardback

Edited by Subhadra Mitra (University of Delhi, India) Channa, Lancy (Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara) Lobo

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This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It explores how they extended and maintained their tenuous rule over India through coercion, violent oppression, and exploration of knowledge of this vast region and its people. Excavating archival materials, this volume looks at extensive ethnographic surveys, the study of history, cartography, archaeology, native languages, and literatures from colonial times.

It takes a critical look at the attempts of unravelling the social structural principles such as caste and religious groups and also how power was used in multiple forms and contexts to establish dominance over the people of the subcontinent and its resources.

The essays in this volume are from a period when the technologies of colonization were being experimented with and reect a mixed bag of admiration, derogation, and paternalism from those holding positions of power and responsibility, including some elite Indians.

It further examines the emergence of a sense of nationalism, a critique of the Eurocentric views of the colonial masters, indicating the contribution of Western education to the formation of an Indian identity that finds resonance in modern times. This book will be useful to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, public administration, modern history, colonial studies, and demography.

It will also be of interest to civil servants, students of history, Indian culture and society, religions, colonial history, law, and South Asia studies.

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