Police Matters : The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900-1975 /

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"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumar, Radha, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Police-community relations.
Police.
Law enforcement.
Caste > Political aspects.
Caste-based discrimination.
Caste-based discrimination > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century.
Police-community relations > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century.
Caste > Political aspects > India > Tamil Nadu > History.
Law enforcement > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century.
Police > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century.
India > Tamil Nadu.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • State Knowledge : Seeing Like a Policeman
  • Police Documents : The Politics of "False Cases"
  • Routine Coercion : Scarred Bodies, Clean Records
  • "Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras
  • Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics.

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