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Record Nr.

UNISA996445844903316

Autore

Kumar Radha <1981->

Titolo

Police Matters : The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 / / by Radha Kumar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2021

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , [2021]

©[2021]

ISBN

1-5017-6086-6

1-5017-6087-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

363.20954/820904

Soggetti

Police-community relations

Police

Law enforcement

Caste - Political aspects

Caste-based discrimination

Caste-based discrimination - India - Tamil Nadu - History - 20th century

Police-community relations - India - Tamil Nadu - History - 20th century

Caste - Political aspects - India - Tamil Nadu - History

Law enforcement - India - Tamil Nadu - History - 20th century

Police - India - Tamil Nadu - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

India Tamil Nadu

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in



the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--