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Anthropologist and Imperialist: H.H. Risley and British India, 1873-1911

Anthropologist and Imperialist: H.H. Risley and British India, 1873-1911

Fuller, C. J.

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AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1032598042
ISBN13: 9781032598048
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 5 2023
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - 'H. H. Risley', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of 'civilising' British rule and its benefits for both India and Britain, and one of this book's objectives is to render his simultaneous commitment to anthropology and imperialism intelligible to present-day readers. More specifically, Anthropologist and Imperialist: H. H. Risley and British India, 1873-1911 documents the two sides of Risley's career, which is used as a case-study to investigate, first, the production and circulation of colonial knowledge, specifically anthropological knowledge, and secondly, its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking, and with the government and state overall.

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