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Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-2003.

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge : The British in India / Bernard S. Cohn. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996. - xvii, 189 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history .

Contents
Foreword, by Nicholas B. Dirks;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
Chapter 2: The Command of Language and the Language of Command;
Chapter 3: Law and the Colonial State in India;
Chapter 4: The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India;
Chapter 5: Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century;
Notes;
Index;
About the author;
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

ISBN: 0691032939 (cl : alk. paper) 0691000433 (pb : alk. paper) 9780691000435

LCCN: 96006448

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--History--British Occupation, 1765-1947.
India--Civilization--British Influences.
India--Politics and Government--1765-1947.

LC Class. No.: DS436 / .C65 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 954 COH