Title Document Raj : writing and scribes in early colonial South India / Bhavani Raman

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : color illustrations Series South Asia across the disciplines South Asia across the disciplines. Contents Introduction -- Scribal practice -- Cutcherry scribes -- Scribal skills -- Writing and pedagogy -- Cutcherry Tamil -- Schools and writing -- Document Raj -- Duplicity and evidence -- Addressing the Raj -- Conclusion Summary Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research in the files of the East India Company's administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a bureaucracy gone awry in a fever of documentation practices that grew ever more abstract-and the power, both economic and cultural, this created. In order to assert its legitimacy and value within th Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from e-book title page (viewed January 8, 2013) Subject East India Company -- Records and correspondence -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject Scribes -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 19th century Tamil language -- Writing -- History -- 19th century Documentation -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 19th century Public administration -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 19th century Accounting -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 19th century Bureaucracy -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. Records Accounting Bureaucracy Documentation Public administration Scribes Tamil language -- Writing India -- Tamil Nadu Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012011879 ISBN 9780226703299 0226703290 1283637898 9781283637893

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