Introduction: Making Sense of Empire

This essay serves as an introduction to a special section on the senses in late colonial India. Participating act of decolonising sensory studies, this collection explores intersections between post-colonial studies and by paying particular attention sensorium colonised. In historical geographical context South Asia, are embedded acts distinction across race, caste, class, bodily gender hierarchies. The intervenes relationship power sense perception it finds register media, scientific practices literature period. Across section, we suggest that making empire is also make regimes have resonances contemporary.