Temporalities, History and Routines of Rule in Colonial India  

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Kalpagam, U.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Time & Society vol. 8 no. 1 (Mar. 1999), page 141–159.
Topik: bureaucratic practices; colonialism; history; progress; temporalities
Fulltext: 141TAS81.pdf (76.6KB)

Isi artikel

British colonial rule in India, as elsewhere in the world, reconstituted categories of time and space through its administrative practices. This paper explores how a state temporality was introduced which in turn enabled a discourse of progress and history. Drawing upon the works of Foucault and recent postcolonial studies, it argues that the requirement of 'normalized' colonial subjects as objects of colonial regulatory practices rendered history as a site of colonial mimicry.

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