Police matters the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975

"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumar, Radha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021, [2021]
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 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