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Forgotten Voices of the British Empire: How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma

Forgotten Voices of the British Empire: How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma

Boshier, Carol Ann

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General Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1538159880
ISBN13: 9781538159880
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 16 2022
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information. It focuses on heterogeneous voices on the periphery, who interacted with the indigenous population to produce knowledge in original or unexpected ways that extended beyond the limits prescribed by the term 'colonial.' Largely unrecognized today, their endeavors to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity, or improve their material circumstances, produced a perspective on colonial life that stripped away conventions; where their ordinary everyday experiences sometimes became extraordinary, as they forged new networks throughout the subcontinent and beyond its frontiers. Their journeys and experiences offer a discursive historical construct as significant as official reports, censuses, and surveys, and contribute towards our understanding of the diverse creative processes through which intellectual histories of the colonial state were constructed.

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