
The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge
The British in India
Vinay Lal(Editor)
Primus Books (Publisher)
Published on 25. July 2022
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-93-5572-172-3 (ISBN)
Description
Colonialism is generally understood to encompass political domination, military expansion, and economic exploitation, but the British, in their nearly two centuries of rule over India, also achieved a thoroughgoing conquest of knowledge. In the backdrop of the Enlightenment impulse, which held that everything can be known, mapped, counted, categorized, and bounded, and the knowledge thus acquired reshaped into useable forms, the British in India created an epistemological state. The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India examines the fields and bodies of knowledge through which this state was created.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-5572-172-3 (9789355721723)
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