Simpson, Thomas (Author)
Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.
...MoreReview Kapil Raj (2023) Review of "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 403-408).
Review Sebastian James Rose (2022) Review of "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 250-252).
Review Thomas R. Metcalf (2021) Review of "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 309-310).
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