Anthropologists and Viceroys: Colonial knowledge and policy making in India, 1871-1911

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 217-258

  Fuller, C J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CASTE SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL HISTORY;

INDIA;

EID: 84953349817     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X15000037     Document Type: Review

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