On Reading A Descriptive Memoir of Malabar
Keywords:
Colonialism, investigative modality, knowledge-power analysis, Malabar, Malanadu, Desam-sAbstract
British colonialism in Indian soil had sustained its authority through the creation of the knowledge about the landscape and people. Several Indological and bureaucratic exercises had been instrumental in creating knowledge about the indigenous people. The colonial bureaucrats had devised survey modality to know about the indigenous. One such attempt was done in Malabar by Lt. Benjamin Swain Ward in 1824 and it culminated with the publication of A Descriptive Memoir of Malabar in 1906. Through this, Lt. B S Ward could ‘construct’ the landscape and people Malabar. This paper is an attempt to look A Descriptive Memoir of Malabar.
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