Title in ENGLISH : Colonialism is generally understood to encompass political domination, military expansion, and economic exploitation, but the British, in their nearly two centuries of rule over India, also achieved a thorough going conquest of knowledge. In the backdrop of the enlightenment impulse, which held that everything can be known, mapped, counted, categorized, and bounded, and the knowledge thus acquired reshaped into useable forms, the British in India created an epistemological state.

ISBN 13: 9789355721648

ISBN 10: 9355721641

Edition: Delhi

Year: 2022

Language: ENGLISH

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): History