Police Matters : The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900-1975 / Radha Kumar.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) : 8 b&w halftones, 2 mapsContent type:- text
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- 9781501760860
- Caste -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History
- Caste-based discrimination -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
- Law enforcement -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
- Police -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
- Police-community relations -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- History -- 20th century
- Asian Studies
- Criminology
- Human Rights
- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
- police caste india, policing south india, Madurai police, chennai police, london police, colonial police
- 363.20954/820904 23
- HV8249.T3
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Note on Terminology -- Note on Castes -- Introduction -- Part I. Police and the Everyday State -- Chapter 1. State Knowledge: Seeing Like a Policeman -- Chapter 2. Police Documents: The Politics of " False Cases" -- Chapter 3. Routine Coercion: Scarred Bodies, Clean Records -- Part II. Policing Popular Politics -- Chapter 4. "Unlawful Assembly" in Colonial Madras -- Chapter 5. Illegitimate Force in Postcolonial Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
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Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police acted as tools of the state in deploying rigid notions of caste, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows. Kumar draws on unexplored police archives to enter the dusty streets and market squares where local constables walked, following their gaze and observing their actions towards potential subversives. Station records present a textured view of ordinary interactions between police and society, showing that state coercion was not only exceptional and spectacular; it was also subtle and continuous, woven into everyday life. The colonial police categorized Indian subjects based on caste to ensure the security of agriculture and trade, and thus the smooth running of the economy. Among policemen and among the objects of their coercive gaze, caste became a particularly salient form of identity in the politics of public spaces. Police Matters demonstrates that, without doubt, modern caste politics have both been shaped by, and shaped, state policing.
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