Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975
State Knowledge : Seeing Like a Policeman -- Police Documents : The Politics of "False Cases" -- Routine Coercion : Scarred Bodies, Clean Records -- "Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras -- Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics.
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press
2021
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In: | Year: 2021 |
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Summary: | State Knowledge : Seeing Like a Policeman -- Police Documents : The Politics of "False Cases" -- Routine Coercion : Scarred Bodies, Clean Records -- "Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras -- Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics. "A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"-- |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Physical Description: | xix, 241 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
ISBN: | 9781501761065 |