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Other Landscapes - Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India (Hardcover)
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Other Landscapes - Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India (Hardcover)
Series: NIAS Monograph Series, 111
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Due to the inhospitable climate and vastness of the native
population, European settlement of India was never seriously
considered apart from in selected upland areas with cooler climates
and sparse native populations. One such area was the Nilgiri Hills
of South India which, from the early 19th century, saw concerted
efforts at European colonization and displacement of the local
population as well as an attempt to visualize and recreate an
English landscape in the area. Other Landscapes investigates the
interfaces between indigenes, European settlers and the colonial
state on the Nilgiri Hills, focusing on land disputes, regulation
of land sales, regimes of forest management and ethnographic
projects of cultural preservation . It examines the landscape as it
was configured in the Imperial imagination, explores the corruption
and manipulation of local administration and argues that rarely, if
ever, did official intent correspond to the systems of reform,
regulation and invigilation imposed over the local agrarian
landscape.
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