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Author Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-2003.

Title Colonialism and its forms of knowledge : the British in India / Bernard S. Cohn.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.

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 Moore Stacks  DS436 .C65 1996    Available  ---
Description xvii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index.
Contents Foreword / by Nicholas B. Dirks -- Introduction -- The command of language and the language of command -- Law and the colonial state in India -- The transformation of objects into artifacts, antiquities, and art in nineteenth-century India -- Cloth, clothes, and colonialism: India in the nineteenth century.
Credits With a foreword by Nicholas B. Dirks.
Subject India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
India -- Civilization -- British influences.
India.
Civilization.
India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1765-1947
Subject British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947)
Civilization -- British influences.
Chronological Term 1765 - 1947
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 0691000433 (pb : alkaline paper)
0691032939 (cl : alkaline paper)
9780691032931 (cl : alkaline paper)
9780691000435 (pb : alkaline paper)