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SUMMARY:The World of the Village Watchman in Colonial Eastern India - Dr. 
 Partha Pratim Shil (Junior Research Fellow\, Trinity College\, University 
 of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:The village watchman\, also called chaukidar\, was a security 
 worker employed throughout the vast countryside of the province of Bengal 
 in British India. The colonial state wanted the village watch to be its ey
 es and ears in rural society\, aiding its limited police establishments do
 tted across the province. However\, remunerated out of a tax raised from v
 illage households and managed by village elites\, the village watchman was
  not in a position to challenge the will of local power wielders when they
  violated the law. Furthermore\, almost all village watchmen belonged to t
 he most oppressed castes of the region\, a feature that made it into a par
 ticularly vulnerable form of security labour. This paper is an exploration
  of the labouring lives of these village watchmen in colonial eastern Indi
 a. It is a study of a form of labour caught in the clash and coalescence b
 etween the claims of the colonial state and the dictates of rural society.
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