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Rule by Numbers - Governmentality in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Rule by Numbers - Governmentality in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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This book examines aspects of the production of statistical
knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault's
ideas of "governmentality." The modern state is distinctive for its
bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability
that in the colonial context of governing at a distance instituted
a vast system of recordation bearing semblance to and yet differing
markedly from the Victorian administrative state. The colonial rule
of difference that shaped liberal governmentality introduced new
categories of rule that were nested in the procedures and records
and could be unraveled from the archive of colonial governance.
Such an exercise is attempted here for certain key epistemic
categories such as space, time, measurement, classification and
causality that have enabled the constitution of modern knowledge
and the social scientific discourses of "economy," "society," and
"history." The different chapters engage with how enumerative
technologies of rule led to proliferating measurements and
classifications as fields and objects came within the purview of
modern governance rendering both statistical knowledge and also new
ways of acting on objects and new discourses of governance and the
nation. The postcolonial implications of colonial governmentality
are examined with respect to both planning techniques for
attainment of justice and the role of information in the
constitution of neoliberal subjects.
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