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SUMMARY:Governing Others and Making Themselves: the practices of colonial 
 officials at the Frontiers of British India during the nineteenth century 
 - Tom Simpson
DTSTART:20121106T203000Z
DTEND:20121106T210000Z
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CONTACT:Roeland Verhallen
DESCRIPTION:The British Raj of the late nineteenth century has frequently 
 been seen as an archetypal "modern state"\, premised on principles of bure
 aucratic efficiency and distance from the subjects it dominated. Looking a
 t attempts to institute government during this period in the frontier regi
 ons of Britain's sprawling possessions in South Asia\, it is possible to d
 iscern that officials on the ground were in fact occupied by very differen
 t\, and often contradictory\, sets of concerns. Operating in environs and 
 among people thought to pose a variety of existential threats to officials
 \, practices of government were inextricably entangled with a mixture of v
 ery personal fears and efforts to fashion heroic selves. Through linking a
  number of case studies into a broader theoretical framework\, this talk w
 ill show how the concerns and idiosyncrasies of individual officials consi
 stently impacted upon abortive and haphazard efforts to build the state at
  the edges of British India.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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