Title Police matters : the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975 / by Radha Kumar.

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Description	1 online resource
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note	JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject	Police -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century.
	Police.
	India -- Tamil Nadu.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Law enforcement -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century.
	Law enforcement.
	Caste -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History.
	Caste -- Political aspects.
	Caste.
	Police-community relations -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century.
	Police-community relations.
	Caste-based discrimination -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century.
	Caste-based discrimination.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Police.
Other Form:	Print version: Kumar, Radha, 1981- Police matters Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021] 9781501761065 (DLC) 2021005664
ISBN	9781501760877 (epub)
	1501760874
	9781501760860 (pdf)
	1501760866
	9781501761065 (paperback)