Anthropologist and Imperialist (Record no. 70802)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781032598055
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 3357
Bill Date : 10/09/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 301.092 FUL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Fuller, C J.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Anthropologist and Imperialist
Remainder of title : H.h. Risley and British India, 1873-1911.
Statement of responsibility, etc / C J. Fuller.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2024.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 451p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 4150
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - 'H. H. Risley', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of 'civilising' British rule and its benefits for both India and Britain, and one of this book's objectives is to render his simultaneous commitment to anthropology and imperialism intelligible to present-day readers. More specifically, Anthropologist and Imperialist: H. H. Risley and British India, 1873–1911 documents the two sides of Risley’s career, which is used as a case-study to investigate, first, the production and circulation of colonial knowledge, specifically anthropological knowledge, and secondly, its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking, and with the government and state overall.<br/><br/>Risley, like other officials engaged in anthropology in India, as well as the government itself, insisted that ethnography and anthropology had both ‘administrative’ and ‘scientific’ value; unlike previous works on Indian colonial anthropology, this book carefully examines its ‘scientific’ contributions in relation to contemporary metropolitan anthropology. It does not attempt to reinvent ‘greatman’ political or intellectual history, but does demonstrate the importance of studying the powerful officials who ruled British India, as well as the minor provincial politicians and subaltern subjects – or the abstract forces, such as colonialism and resistance – that have dominated recent historical scholarship. This book shows, too, that a detailed inquiry into Risley’s career, and his ideas and actions, can open new perspectives on a variety of continuing debates, including those over the colonial construction of caste and race in ‘traditional’ India, orientalism and forms of colonial knowledge, Victorian anthropology’s close relationship with the British empire, and the modern discipline’s uneasy links with its colonial past.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropologist
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Imperialist
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element British India
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name C J Fuller
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 29/09/2026 International Book Distributors 4150.00   301.092 FUL 31770 29/09/2026 29/09/2026 Books
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