Title: From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India
Abstract: Perhaps the most important development in Indian historiography in the 1980s was the emergence of a new genre: 'colonial discourse analysis'. Based on the rich documentation left behind by the East India Company and the India Office, studies of how knowledge constructed by British administrators, scientist and commentators helped transform Indian society according to the needs of the colonial state abounded. It was shown how new forms of knowledge were instrumental in processes by which pre-colonial institutions were replaced by institutions with a significant British imprint. It was shown, for instance, how the formal Anglo-Indian judiciary took the place of a less formalized indigenous dispute management, and how local magnates with a capacity to intervene in most aspects of local life were transformed into landowners in the European sense.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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