The Frontier in British India

The Frontier in British India PDF

Author: Thomas Simpson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108840191

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An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.