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Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control.

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ForewordAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Command of Language and the Language of Command163Law and the Colonial State in India574The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India765Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century106Notes163Index181

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 08/09/1996
      ISBN13: 9780691000435, 978-0691000435
      ISBN10: 0691000433
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      Decolonisation

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control.

      Table of Contents
      ForewordAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Command of Language and the Language of Command163Law and the Colonial State in India574The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India765Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century106Notes163Index181

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