The colonial state and statistical knowledge

2024-12-16 Classification：history Click()
Author：Kalpagam, U

Article Title：The colonial state and statistical knowledge

Abstract：
The development of both the modern state and modern scientific discourses in the non-Western world are closely linked together, both being the outcome of the colonial encounter. Using a Foucauldian framework of power/knowledge and his notions of 'episteme' and 'governmentality', this article explores how colonial governmentality in India produced statistical knowledge of the country thus ushering in a new social scientific discourse of 'progress', 'history', 'economy' and 'society'.

Keywords:  colonial state; governmentality; India; scientific discourses; statistical knowledge

DOI: 10.1177/09526950022120665

Source：HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES

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