Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge The British in India

Name: Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge The British in India
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ISBN: 9780691000435

ISBN-10: 0691000433

ISBN-13: 9780691000435

Edition: 1997

Authors: Bernard S. Cohn

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Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal systems, led to fundamental structural changes in Indian social relations. This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form a multifaceted exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/8/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.13" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Command of Language and the Language of Command



Law and the Colonial State in India



The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India



Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century


Notes


Index