Document Raj: Writing And Scribes In Early Colonial India Book

We are engaged in manufacturing, supplying and trading of Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial India Book in Delhi, India. Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of empire. Bhavani Raman uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research in the flies of the East India Company's administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a bureaucracy gone awry in a fever of documentation practices that grew ever more abstract and the power, both economic and cultural, this created. In order to assert its legitimacy and value, the East India Company was diligent about record keeping. Raman shows, however, that the sheer volume of their document production allowed colonial managers to subtly but substantively manipulate records for their own ends, increasingly drawing the real and the recorded further apart. While this administrative sleight of hand increased the company's reach and power, it also bolstered profoundly new orientations to language, writing, memory, and pedagogy for the officers and Indian subordinates involved.