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ISBN | 9789355721648 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Bib. Info | 293p.; 23 cm. Includes Index. |
Product Weight | 670 gms. |
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Colonialism is generally understood to encompass political domination, military expansion, but the British, in their nearly two centuries of rule over India, also achieved a thoroughgoing conquest of Knowledge. In the backdrop of the Enlightenment impulse, which held that everything can be known, mapped, counted, categorized, and bounded, and the knowledge thus acquired rashaped into useable forms, the British in India created an epistemological state.