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954.82 PAN The strangeness of Tamil Nadu : contemporary history and political culture in South India | 954.82 THI Talisman : extreme emotions of dalit liberation | 954.82 TRA Madras school of Orientalism : producing knowledge in colonial South India | 954.82031 RAM Document Raj : writing and scribes in early colonial south India | 954.820314092 MAI Letters from Madras | 954.84 IMA Untold Charminar : writings on Hyderabad | 954.840086918 BHU Subjugated nomads : the Lambadas under the rule of the Nizams |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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