Aparna Balachandran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparna Balachandran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparna |
| FAMILY NAME | Balachandran |
| SIGNATURE | BALACHANDRAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Documents, Digitisation and History
Recent years have seen a very large rise in digitisation projects in various state-administered archives in India, including the National Archives of India and regional archives in different parts of the country. This essay argues that rather than increasing access and transparency, digitisation serves to reproduce and potentially even increase state control over historical sources and memory. In addition, the elision of context in digitised coll…
Petitions, the City, and the Early Colonial State in South India
This article explores the entwined history of early colonial urbanism and the articulation of legal subjectivity under East India Company rule in South India. More specifically, it looks at petitions from outcaste labouring groups to the Madras government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although early colonial petitions were unequivocally products of colonial rule, which derived their distinctive form and language from colo…
Iterations of Law
Iterations of Law: Legal Histories from India advances new perspectives on legal history from South Asia. While earlier historians looked at the results rather than the performance of law, the contributors to this volume examine the socioeconomic and political contexts that shape law-making and its practice. The chapters of this volume interrogate ‘from below’ the framing of legal regimes, and explore the physical and epistemic violence of coloni…
Petition Town
Legal historians have described early modern empires as characterized by legal pluralism and, indeed, the ubiquitous invocation of custom in these petitions appears to reiterate that this was the case in the south Indian colonial port city of Madras. However, the investment in the rhetoric of custom by the state and its subjects was increasingly linked to a regime of paper and property where written evidence and the precedent were prioritized not…
Power, Petitions, and the ‘Povo’ in Early English Bombay
This chapter examines the role petitioning and civil society played in early English attempts to establish political authority at Bombay. The so-called ‘transfer’ of Portuguese authority, first to the English Crown and subsequently to the English East India Company, was hardly immediate, and required varied efforts by English officials to establish power and legitimacy over the places, populace, and littoral they claimed to govern. Drawing on Eur…
Of Corporations and Caste Heads
Of Corporations and Caste Heads: Urban Rule in Company Madras, 1640–1720 Aparna Balachandran This paper examines the ways in which the colonial port city of Madras was envisioned and governed from its founding in the mid seventeenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Early East India Company records suggest that Madras was conceived of as a global city, a crucial hub in a world - wide network of commerce with a multi - racial…
Catholics in Protest
The Alienated White Student in the United States
Petitions, the City, and the Early Colonial State in South India
This article explores the entwined history of early colonial urbanism and the articulation of legal subjectivity under East India Company rule in South India. More specifically, it looks at petitions from outcaste labouring groups to the Madras government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although early colonial petitions were unequivocally products of colonial rule, which derived their distinctive form and language from colo…
Of Corporations and Caste Heads
Of Corporations and Caste Heads: Urban Rule in Company Madras, 1640–1720 Aparna Balachandran This paper examines the ways in which the colonial port city of Madras was envisioned and governed from its founding in the mid seventeenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Early East India Company records suggest that Madras was conceived of as a global city, a crucial hub in a world - wide network of commerce with a multi - racial…
Catholics in Protest
The Alienated White Student in the United States
Catholics in Protest
Of Corporations and Caste Heads
Of Corporations and Caste Heads: Urban Rule in Company Madras, 1640–1720 Aparna Balachandran This paper examines the ways in which the colonial port city of Madras was envisioned and governed from its founding in the mid seventeenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Early East India Company records suggest that Madras was conceived of as a global city, a crucial hub in a world - wide network of commerce with a multi - racial…
Iterations of Law
Iterations of Law: Legal Histories from India advances new perspectives on legal history from South Asia. While earlier historians looked at the results rather than the performance of law, the contributors to this volume examine the socioeconomic and political contexts that shape law-making and its practice. The chapters of this volume interrogate ‘from below’ the framing of legal regimes, and explore the physical and epistemic violence of coloni…
Petition Town
Legal historians have described early modern empires as characterized by legal pluralism and, indeed, the ubiquitous invocation of custom in these petitions appears to reiterate that this was the case in the south Indian colonial port city of Madras. However, the investment in the rhetoric of custom by the state and its subjects was increasingly linked to a regime of paper and property where written evidence and the precedent were prioritized not…
Power, Petitions, and the ‘Povo’ in Early English Bombay
This chapter examines the role petitioning and civil society played in early English attempts to establish political authority at Bombay. The so-called ‘transfer’ of Portuguese authority, first to the English Crown and subsequently to the English East India Company, was hardly immediate, and required varied efforts by English officials to establish power and legitimacy over the places, populace, and littoral they claimed to govern. Drawing on Eur…
Petitions, the City, and the Early Colonial State in South India
This article explores the entwined history of early colonial urbanism and the articulation of legal subjectivity under East India Company rule in South India. More specifically, it looks at petitions from outcaste labouring groups to the Madras government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although early colonial petitions were unequivocally products of colonial rule, which derived their distinctive form and language from colo…
Documents, Digitisation and History
Recent years have seen a very large rise in digitisation projects in various state-administered archives in India, including the National Archives of India and regional archives in different parts of the country. This essay argues that rather than increasing access and transparency, digitisation serves to reproduce and potentially even increase state control over historical sources and memory. In addition, the elision of context in digitised coll…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works)