Impartial regimes of truth: Indentured Indian labour and the status of the inquiry

Cultural Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 749-768

  Mongia, Radhika V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

British empire; Indentured Indian labour; Inquiry; Liberalism; Power knowledge; Regimes of truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 5044247726     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950238042000260379     Document Type: Article

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