STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA

Sidorova, Svetlana E.

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STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA

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STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA

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S086919080000616-4-1

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Svetlana E. Sidorova Send message

ORCID: 0000-0001-8528-6236

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Issue 2

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The paper is devoted to the birth and process of institutionalization of statistic survey in the British India, methods and procedures of collection, systematization and interpretation of the information used by the British officers in the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the problems of “colonial knowledge” and its relations to the colonial power. This study is based on the “Report on the State of Education in Bengal; Including Some Account of the State of Education in Behar” (1838) resulted from two-year study tour and field research conducted by the officer of the East India Company William Adam in 1835-1837.

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colonialism, British India, statistics, information, informational order, colonial knowledge, education, Bengal, Behar

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01.03.2016

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GOST	Sidorova S. STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA // Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. – 2016. – Issue 2 C. 58-72 .
MLA	Sidorova, Svetlana E "STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA." Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. 2 (2016).:58-72.
APA	Sidorova S. (2016). STATISTICS AS A MEANS OF THE COLONIAL POWER IN INDIA. Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. no. 2, pp.58-72


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