Police matters : the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975 /

"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kumar, Radha, 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Police > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century. Law enforcement > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century. Caste > Political aspects > India > Tamil Nadu > History. Police-community relations > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century. Caste-based discrimination > India > Tamil Nadu > History > 20th century. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. Caste-based discrimination. Caste > Political aspects. Law enforcement. Police. Police-community relations. India > Tamil Nadu. 1900-1999 Electronic books. History.
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Table of Contents:

State Knowledge : Seeing Like a Policeman
Police Documents : The Politics of "False Cases"
Routine Coercion : Scarred Bodies, Clean Records
"Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras
Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics.