The frontier in British India : space, science, and power in the nineteenth century. / Thomas Simpson .

By: Simpson ,ThomasContributor(s): Thomas SimpsonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, new Delhi.Publication details: , Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambride University Press , 2021Description: xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps : 24cmISBN: 9781108794121Subject(s): History | India Boundaries | Politics and government | Science India HistoryDDC classification: 954.03 SIM
Contents:
Borders Surveys and maps Ethnography Violence Administration
Summary: Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century
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Borders
Surveys and maps
Ethnography
Violence
Administration

Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century

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