Document Raj

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 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.

שנה

2012

שפה

English

סדרה

South Asia across the disciplines

הוצאה

The University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

278

ISBN

9780226703275

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata