Colonial Anthropology
Technologies and Discourses of Dominance, 1886–1936
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Colonial Anthropology
Technologies and Discourses of Dominance, 1886–1936
About this book
This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how they extended and maintained their tenuous rule over India through coercion, violent oppression, and exploration of knowledge of this vast region and its people.
Excavating archival materials, this volume looks at extensive ethnographic surveys, the study of history, cartography, archaeology, native languages, and literatures from colonial times. It takes a critical look at the attempts of unravelling the social structural principles such as caste and religious groups and also how power was used in multiple forms and contexts to establish dominance over the people of the subcontinent and its resources. The essays in this volume are from a period when the technologies of colonization were being experimented with and reect a mixed bag of admiration, derogation, and paternalism from those holding positions of power and responsibility, including some elite Indians. It further examines the emergence of a sense of nationalism, a critique of the Eurocentric views of the colonial masters, indicating the contribution of Western education to the formation of an Indian identity that finds resonance in modern times.
This book will be useful to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, public administration, modern history, colonial studies, and demography. It will also be of interest to civil servants, students of history, Indian culture and society, religions, colonial history, law, and South Asia studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Establishing an Empire
- 1 Inauguration of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, 1886: A Vision for Anthropology in India
- 2 Development or Evolution of Anthropology in India
- 3 A Survey of the Work Accomplished by the Anthropological Society of Bombay: Suggestions for Extending the Sphere of Its Activities and Influence
- 4 Dr. Leitner’s Address on Ethnography
- 5 Anthropology: It’s Study in Bombay
- 6 Letter from Bombay Government about Museum and Reply
- 7 The Formation and Uses of an Anthropological Museum
- 8 Ethnological Survey: India and England
- 9 Introductory Note on Ethnographic Survey
- 10 The Bombay Archaeological Society’s President’s Address
- 11 Presidential Address
- 12 Report From Hon. Secretary at the Tenth Indian Science Congress
- 13 Some Neglected Fields of Anthropology in India
- 14 Presidential Address on Anthropology and Some Modern Problems
- 15 The Bombay Census (1901) and Hindu Castes
- 16 The Results of the Ethnographical Survey of Bombay
- 17 The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India
- 18 Some Notes on the Village System of the Bombay Presidency
- 19 A Few Notes on the Aborigines of Chhota Udepur State in the Rewa Kantha Political Agency
- 20 Sancholoos: A Criminal Wandering Tribe
- Glossary
- Index