Cents, sense, census: Human inventories in late precolonial and early Colonial India

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 819-850

  Peabody, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTE SYSTEM; CENSUS; COLONIALISM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE;

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CENSUSES; COLONIALISM; ETHNIC GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

INDIA;

EID: 0034767189     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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