The Indian village has often been seen as the ultimate signifier of " authentic native life " , a place where one could see or observe the " real " India and develop an understanding of the way local people organised their social life. Though it was during the colonial period that the Indian society was first essentialised as a land of 'village republics', the later traditions of scholarship to...

This chapter traces how British and Dutch colonial officials gathered and organized knowledge on Islamic law in the British Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) respectively. Despite clear differences between the legal systems and administrative structures of the two colonies, colonial authorities shared a considerable amount of ...

Assessments of colonial medicine in India have, until now, focused almost exclusively on questions related to human health. This article shifts attention to the subject of animal health and reexamines existing hypotheses about colonial medicine in India from this new perspective. It looks at the linkages between veterinary medicine and the military and fiscal policies of the colonial state, arg...

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...

How genetic diversity is maintained in philopatric colonial systems remains unclear, and understanding the dynamic balance of philopatry and dispersal at all spatial scales is essential to the study of the evolution of coloniality. In the King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, return rates of post-fledging chicks to their natal sub-colony are remarkably high. Empirical studies have shown that a...

This essay explores religion’s need for law, comparing the story told in Mitra Sharafi’s Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (2014)—about the virtual hijacking of British colonial law to serve the communal religious needs of Parsis in colonial India—to other contexts in which secular and religious legal systems have built symbiotic relationships, including in the United States and Thailand....

this article is an attempt to survey the contraction and cancellation of the reuter’s agreement as a one-sided approach and from special perspective, by using minimalistic ideology and with emphasis on multi-sided and various reasons and factors effective in the process of this contract.  on the basis of this research, in this contraction, different factors came together and augmented one anoth...

The postcolonial has still remained on the margins of Game Studies, which has now incorporated at length, contemporary debates of race, gender and other areas that challenge the canon. It is difficult to believe, however, that postcolonial ideas do not influence the way in which videogames are perceived; the effect, it can be argued, is often subtle. For the millions of Indian gamers, it is a m...

Mycologists and practicing dermatologists frequently have designated as distinct species the downy forms of Trichophyton mentagrophytes that are commonly isolated from chronic ringworm of the feet or toenails and the granular forms of this fungus usually isolated from suppurative ringworm of the beard or scalp. The chief difference between the two types of culture is one of gross colonial form....