Her majesty’s servants: the tame and the wild under the British Raj

Through an analysis of colonial and orientalist literature, this article will show how South Asian fauna, through the lenses of Colonial enterprise, came to epitomize a whole system of social relations which can be easily tri-partite: the ruler, the ruled and the unruly. The complex colonial apparat...

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1. Verfasser: Torri, Davide (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2013-10-08
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2013, Jahrgang: 7, Heft: 1-3, Pages: 44-58
ISSN:1751-2697
DOI:10.1558/rosa.v7i1-3.44
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v7i1-3.44
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/article/view/11116
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