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.
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