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Statistics as a Means of the British Colonial Power in India

Vostok/Oriens '2016, №2

 
The paper is devoted to the birth and the process of institutionalization of statistic survey in the British India, methods and procedures of collection, systematization and interpretation of the information used by the British officers in the nineteenth century. The main attention is focused upon the problems of “colonial knowledge” and its relation to the colonial power and authorities’ needs. This study is based on the “Report on the State of Education in Bengal; Including Some Account of the State of Education in Behar” (1838) that resulted from two-year study tour and field research conducted by the officer of the East India Company William Adam in 1835–1837.

Keywords: colonialism, British India, statistics, information, informational order, colonial knowledge, education, Bengal, Behar

Pages: С. 58–72