object but always involves knowledge about this knowledge as well, that is, meta or second-order knowledge. This reflexivity of knowledge also accounts for its self-organizing, self-promoting qualities. Second-order knowledge is the origin 22

The Globalization of Knowledge in History

List of illustrations List of tables General editor's preface Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: science, colonialism and modernity 2. Science under the East India Company 3. Western medicine in an Indian environment 4. Technologies of the steam age 5. Imperial science and the Indian scientific community 6. Science, state and nation Conclusion Biographical notes Bibliographical essay Index.

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Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends. While a considerable body of work has demonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation, transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book illustrates that it is in fact only through a comparative and transnational framework that it is possible to elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism and the political, racial and moral contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

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Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia

view, critical of traditional cultural and social practices.’ Their agenda for change, however, was not based on westernization, but a selective rejection and reform of the present. The progress achieved by the West pointed to the possible directions for future, but how the past should figure in the new order was quite uncertain. The increasing influence of colonial culture heightened this uncertainty and underlined the possible loss of cultural heritage. As a result the intellectuals were caught in a paradox: to discard the old and create a new cultural milieu, on the one hand, and to preserve or retrieve the traditional cultural space so that past is not swept off the ground. The efforts to reconcile this paradox led to a critical inquiry into both the past as well as the present. The movement for the revitalization of

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