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Constructing the Colonial Encounter

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Constructing the Colonial Encounter

By Niels Brimnes

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This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period. Whereas the Indian population expected the colonial authorities to intervene in the disputes, the Europeans were reluctant to get involved in conflicts which they barely understood. In the nineteenth century the significance of the divisions diminished, a development tha...Show more

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9781138991651

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2019

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1

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Constructing the Colonial Encounter

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Paperback

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