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Colonialism and its forms of knowledge : the British in India /Bernard S Cohn

By: Bernard S CohnContributor(s): Bernard S CohnMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1996Description: xvii, 189 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691000435Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: British Occupation of India (1765-1947)DDC classification: 954 COH

Contents:

1.Introduction 2.The Command of Language and the Language of Command 3.Law and the Colonial State in India 4.The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India 5.Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century Notes Index

Summary: 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 political control.

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1.Introduction
2.The Command of Language and the Language of Command
3.Law and the Colonial State in India
4.The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India
5.Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century
Notes
Index

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 political control.

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