Strategies of Imperial Control and Their Lasting Footprints

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University Of Jammu Jammu,J & K, India Description The article traces in detail the deployment and exercise of complex array of strategies by the Colonial Government - for creation of network of surveillance by which Imperial control expanded, sustained and consolidate their authority in India. The paper highlights the unearthing of pre-colonial past initiated through generations of European scholarly endeavour which was transformed in official discourse of Manuals, Gazettes to support Colonial realpolitik. After 1857, British raj became more security conscious, thereby increasingly employed statistical and ethnographic information to attempt to better control the large swathes of people and territory. In this process   the project objectified social, cultural, linguistic differences among the people of India, contributed decisively to the formation of highly influential stereotypes and modes of classification for the sake of ruling. The article also examines how Colonial constructs became embedded in and continue to inform contemporary political, social, legal and economic structures. Files Strategies of Imperial Control and Their Lasting Footprints.pdf Files (257.4 kB) Name Size Download all Strategies of Imperial Control and Their Lasting Footprints.pdf md5:f2cd24d6ab25cd499b27294a4aee2ffb 257.4 kB Preview Download Additional details Dates Submitted 2025-10-09 Accepted 2025-10-21 Software Repository URL http://www.socialresearchfoundation.com/new/publish-journal.php?editID=11849 References Bernard S. Cohn; Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, Princeton University Press, 1996, see forward by Nicholas. Dirks. Michel Foucault; Power /knowledge, selected interviews &other writings 1972-1977, ed., by Colin Gordon , Vintage Books, New York, Harvester Press, 1980 P 67; Bernard S. Cohn; Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge, op.cit. see forward. C. A. 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Ibid. P138 Mohan Lal, Journal of a Tour through the Punjab Afghanistan, Turkestan, Khorasan and part of Persia in Company with Lieut. Burnes and Dr. Gerard, Baptist Mission Press, 1834; M. J. Bayly, Taming the Imperial Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2016, see introduction C. A. Bayly; Empire and Information, op.cit., Pp105-7. Bernard S. Cohn; Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge op.cit., see introduction Carol Breckenridge, Appadurai ed., Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspective on South Asias New Cultural Studies, op.cit , preface Ibid Ibid 29 Views 18 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 29 29 Downloads Total downloads 18 18 Data volume Total data volume 4.9 MB 4.9 MB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Keywords and subjects Keywords Colonial Realpolitik, Statistical and Ethnographic Information, Cultural, Linguistic differences, Stereotypes. 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