Measuring Tribal ‘Otherness’
Colonial Enumeration, Religion, and Governmentality, c. 1876–1909
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23403239 |
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| Authors | Angma Dey Jhala (0000-0002-1662-1691, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 106-166 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Endangered History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199493081.003.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2969908638 |
| ISBN | 9780199493081 |
| Language | EN |
The chapter examines the role of enumerative data in defining identity and ethnicity during the late colonial period. Focussing on two surveys of the CHT from 1876 and 1909 by W.W. Hunter and R.H. Sneyd Hutchinson respectively, it investigates how the census created standardized labels, relating to religion, tribe, and caste, which often undermined the region’s porous border-crossing, interethnic, and interreligious history. It reveals the inherent contradictions, vagueness of definitions, and, at times, gross inaccuracies within official bureaucratic documentation. Further, it notes how colonial demographic categories would influence later nationalist determinations of cultural and religious identity based on population numbers.
Archaeology · Colonialism · Combinatorics · Enumeration · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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