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Author Kumar, Radha, 1981- author.

Title Police matters : the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975 / by Radha Kumar
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents State Knowledge : Seeing Like a Policeman -- Police Documents : The Politics of "False Cases" -- Routine Coercion : Scarred Bodies, Clean Records -- "Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras -- Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics
Summary "A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis police caste india, policing south india, Madurai police, chennai police, london police, colonial police
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Police -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
Law enforcement -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
Caste -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History
Police-community relations -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
Caste-based discrimination -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Caste-based discrimination
Caste -- Political aspects
Law enforcement
Police
Police-community relations
India -- Tamil Nadu
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021005665
ISBN 9781501760877
1501760874
9781501760860
1501760866