An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj.

Hambly, Gavin R. G.; Metcalf, Thomas R.; Tillotson, G. H. R.

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“…In his essay "Colonialism and its forms of knowledge" Bernard S. Cohn recorded that the British used land records as a mechanism for manipulating ownership patterns and taxation in order to protect and consolidate their own interests (Cohn, 2021). Thomas Metcalf noted that the British used land records and surveys as mechanisms to order the landscape of Indian provinces and keep them under their control (Metcalf, 2002). According to David Ludden such efforts by the British colonial administration to bring land tenure systems and revenue records under documentary control disrupted traditional communities and support systems and generated new economic disparities (Ludden, 1985).…”

Section: Cultural Impact Of Colonial Documentationmentioning

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Recovering Knowledge Commons for the Global South

Ghosh

2024

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The colonial encounter instituted the hegemony of documentary practices over oral, performative and manuscript practices. Only knowledge validated through the process of print publication could stand the test of legal scrutiny. On the one hand the Western epistemological quest glossed over ideas that existed through ephemera, on the other hand that knowledge which Western print practices imbibed from non-European traditions were henceforth, locked behind intellectual property regimes and restrictive archival practices. This tremendously skewed access to knowledge between the North and the South. Tools for digital transformation, particularly those that are based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), can be culture specific eg. training data for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)/ Hand-written Text Recognition (HTR); datasets for natural language processing. In the absence of culture specific tools in underdeveloped societies Anglo-American interpretive categories and assumptions become the default. Further, Anglo-American institutions work to use their advantage in the balance of knowledge distribution to maintain their hegemonic position. In order to protect the South's access to human heritage and knowledge we need to develop technologies that leverage the potentials of digital communication for increased conversations among languages of the South.

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Section: Cultural Impact Of Colonial Documentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ghosh

2024

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“…Instead, the products of colonial urban restructuring evinced "the elusive, contradictory, tentative, negotiated, and fluid" through material juxtapositions of older and newer, local and foreign elements (Chattopadhyay, 2005;Glover, 2007;Hosagrahar, 2005;Kidambi, 2007;Legg, 2007). Early 1980s works about the colonial city inaugurated this analysis on a broader geographical scope (Abu-Lughod, 1980;Çelik, 1997;Cohen & Eleb, 2002;Crinson, 2003;Fuller, 2007;Mclaren, 2006;Metcalf, 2002;Prochaska, 1990;Rabinow, 1980;Wright, 1991).…”

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Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

Grancho

2022

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City

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This article explores how the ideas of race, ethnicity and religion shifted with modernity in Diu. While it concentrates on findings about Diu, the arguments it develops are more wide-ranging and have a series of architectural, urbanistic, and anthropological implications. It addresses the construction of identity by exploring the multiplicities and slippages of colonial imagery, social histories, and spatial production in the management of populations and colonial cities. We argue that the Portuguese shared ideologies rooted in race, ethnicity and religion that provide a consistent, detectable structure for a specific interpretation of spatial-morphological arrangements in Diu (the city's buildings, architecture, urban layout, and spatial structure) in the context of the European colonial city in South Asia. We analyze the discourse with which the Portuguese created knowledge through cartography, tracing how ideologies linked to race, ethnicity and religion were historically internalized, and how they worked in conjunction with social structures and practices to produce the colonial city of Diu.

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An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj.

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Drawing the “color line”: Race, ethnicity and religion in Diu

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