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SUMMARY:Soldiers-intellectuals\, Colonial Knowledge and Military Despotism
  in India\, 1800-1858 - Mark Condos (Wolfson)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Historians seeking to explain the dramatic success of the Brit
 ish empire have long recognized the formative role that warfare played in 
 the expansion of the empire.  Yet\, until recently\, however\, they have t
 ended to neglect studying the military as a serious way of examining the e
 volution of British rule in colonial India\, focusing predominantly on bat
 tles and campaigns rather than the military’s institutional and intellec
 tual impact.  This seems to be a vast oversight indeed\, as military offic
 ers occupied key positions as both soldiers and administrators in India\, 
 which enabled them to exert a profound influence not only on policy\, but 
 also on the various perceptions and interpretations of Indian culture and 
 society upon which those policies were informed and premised.  The intent 
 of this paper\, therefore\, is to shed some light on the processes by whic
 h colonial knowledge of India was generated\, transmitted\, and translated
  into policies of governance by military officials.  Though by no means a 
 homogeneous process\, this paper will examine how certain forms of knowled
 ge were mediated through the coercive structure of the military and subseq
 uently transformed into a specifically militarized theory of colonial rule
  known as “military despotism."
LOCATION:Graduate Union Lounge\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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