Police Matters : The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 /

Kumar, Radha, 1981-

Police Matters : The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 / by Radha Kumar. - 1 online resource (264 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--

9781501760877




Police-community relations.
Police.
Law enforcement.
Caste--Political aspects.
Caste-based discrimination.
Caste-based discrimination--History--India--Tamil Nadu--20th century.
Police-community relations--History--India--Tamil Nadu--20th century.
Caste--Political aspects--History.--India--Tamil Nadu
Law enforcement--History--India--Tamil Nadu--20th century.
Police--History--India--Tamil Nadu--20th century.


India--Tamil Nadu.


History.
Electronic books.