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Decolonizing public order : law and emergency in India, 1915-1955
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The rhetoric of english India
TL;DR: In this paper, the rhetoric of English India has been studied in the context of the history of European ideas, and the rhetoric has been analyzed in terms of English-to-Indians.
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The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork
TL;DR: It is through remarkable yet quotidian episodes that Ben Kafka develops his book on the demon of writing and through the historical characters, he illustrates the topics to address about the essential role paperwork took in society and why, after all, it would still be to blame for the problems of the State.
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Citizenship and its discontents: an Indian history
TL;DR: The development and growth of citizenship in industrialized societies, especially Britain, has been, for several decades, considered a "Citizenship and Social Class" as discussed by the authors, where the authors chronicled the development of citizenship and social class.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
TL;DR: Scott as discussed by the authors describes how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed and why these schemes have failed, including the one described in this paper, See Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76
Michel Foucault,Mauro Bertani,François Ewald,Alessandro Fontana,Arnold I. Davidson,David Macey +5 more
TL;DR: Foucault argued that any constitutional theory of sovereignty and right is an attempt to refute the fact that power relations are based upon a relationship of conflict, violence and domination.
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
TL;DR: Mehta as discussed by the authors argues that British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile, and that it is in the conservative Edmund Burke -a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion -that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision.
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Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between language and history in Benjamin's thought, and discuss the problem of law in the world of Benjamin's ideas. But their focus is on the notion of potentiality, not the history of the world.