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Document Raj : writing and scribes in early colonial South India /
Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research in the files of the East India Company's administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a bureaucracy gone awry in a fever of documentation practices that grew ever more abstract-and the power, both economic and cultural, this created. In order to assert its legitimacy and value within th. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226703299 0226703290 1283637898 9781283637893 |