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South Asia Seminar

The Cast(e) of the Colonial Police: Constables and Chaukidars in Colonial Bengal

Partha Pratim Shil (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
22 January 2019 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This presentation explores two workforces at the bottom of the coercive apparatus of the colonial state in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These are police... Read more