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The politics of identity and enumeration in India c. 1600-1990
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In this article, the authors examine the pratique du recensement avant, pendant, and apres la periode coloniale en Inde, centrant son analyse sur l'enumeration, considere comme un processus central dans la formation de l'Etat and des identites.Abstract:
L'A. examine la pratique du recensement avant, pendant, et apres la periode coloniale en Inde, centrant son analyse sur l'enumeration, considere comme un processus central dans la formation de l'Etat et des identites. Afin de restaurer l'autonomie d'action des Indiens, il examine la signification de l'enumeration dans l'etablissement des frontieres sociales. Il montre que l'enumeration ne fut pas une innovation de l'administration coloniale. Les effets essentiels de l'enumeration pendant la periode coloniale et postcoloniale sont relies a la formation d'un espace politique indien unitaire et a l'institution politique electorale. L'A. examine d'abord les significations fiscales et politiques des pratiques administratives des Mughal et leur heritage au 18 eme siecle au niveau sous-continental. Il centre ensuite son analyse sur les regions de l'Inde occidentale et centrale jusqu'a la fin du 19 eme siecle, passant a nouveau a l'echelle sous-continentale pour les periodes suivantes. Finalement, il propose une etude de cas, montrant comment, en Inde occidentale, au niveau etatique, les communautes pouvaient communiquer, se reunir et de changer, en opposition a la legislation officielle, et independemment du recensement.read more
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Recognition and Registration: The Infrastructure of Personhood in World History
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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
TL;DR: Martin et al. as mentioned in this paper present a transcript of a faculty seminar on "Technologies of the self," originally presented at the University of Vermont in the fall of 1982, where Foucault's project on the self was the logical conclusion to his historical inquiry over twenty-five years into insanity, deviancy, criminality and sexuality.
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Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
TL;DR: In this article, the modernity of Caste and its modernity in the old regime were discussed. But the focus was on the criminalization of the original Caste, and not on the social identity of the Caste.