Anthropologist and Imperialist

ISBN-13: 9781032598048 / Twarda / 2023 / 452 str.

C. J. Fuller

Opis

This book documents the two sides of Risley’s career, which is used as a case-study to investigate the production and circulation of colonial knowledge and its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Maps

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on Indian Names, Currency and the Bibliography

Introduction

1. Early Life in England

2. Junior District Officer and Gazetteer Assistant

3. Under-Secretary in the Government of Bengal

4. District Officer in Chota Nagpur

5. The Ethnographic Survey of Bengal

6. The Tribes and Castes of Bengal

7. Proposals to Extend the Ethnographic Survey

8. Financial and Municipal Secretary, Government of Bengal

9. Commissioner of the 1901 Census and Director of Ethnography for India

10. Caste, Race and Hierarchy 

11. Curzon’s Home Secretary in the Government of India

12. Minto’s Home Secretary in the Government of India                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                13. Caste, Class and Nationalism

14. Secretary in the India Office, Last Months in England and Unfinished Work

15. Political Sequel and Anthropological Legacy

Appendix: Chronology and Record of Service

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

C. J. Fuller is emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of several books, including The Camphor Flame and The Renewal of the Priesthood.