TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brown, M
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 2003/06/01
SN  - 0007-0874
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/25520
AB  - <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>
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - en
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
KW  - Legal History; Law and Society; Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified; Studies in Human Society
T1  - Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India: The question of native crime and criminality
DO  - 10.1017/S0007087403005004
IS  - British Journal for the History of Science
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SP  - 201-219
ER  -