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The frontier in British India : space, science, and power in the nineteenth century
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Simpson, Thomas (2021) The frontier in British India : space, science, and power in the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108840194
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108879156
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISBN: | 9781108840194 | ||||
Book Title: | The Frontier in British India | ||||
Official Date: | January 2021 | ||||
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DOI: | 10.1017/9781108879156 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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