Table of Contents

ForewordAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Command of Language and the Language of Command163Law and the Colonial State in India574The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India765Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century106Notes163Index181

About the Author

Bernard S. Cohn is Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays and India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization.