Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India: The question of native crime and criminality
Author
Brown, MDate
2003-06-01Source Title
British Journal for the History of SciencePublisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)University of Melbourne Author/s
Brown, MarkAffiliation
CriminologyMetadata
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Brown, M. (2003). Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India: The question of native crime and criminality. British Journal for the History of Science, 36 (2), pp.201-219. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087403005004.Access Status
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Abstract
<jats:p>This paper examines the central role of ethnology, the science of race, in the administration of colonial India. This occurred on two levels. First, from the late eighteenth century onwards, proto-scientists and administrators in India engaged with metropolitan theorists through the provision of data on native society and habits. Second, these same agents were continually and reciprocally influenced in the collection and use of such data by the political doctrines and scientific theories that developed over the course of this period. Among the central interests of ethnographer-administrators was the native criminal and this paper uses knowledge developed about native crime and criminality to illustrate the way science became integral to administration in the colonial domain.</jats:p>
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Legal History; Law and Society; Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified; Studies in Human SocietyExport Reference in RIS Format
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