JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cite JOURNAL ARTICLE
Style
Format
Knowledge/Power in (Post)Colonial India 1870–1920: Indian Political Economy as Counter-Knowledge and the Transformation of the Colonial Order
Sociologus, Vol. 67 (2017), Iss. 1 : pp. 83–107
Additional Information
Article Details
Pricing
Author Details
Katja Rieck, M.A., Exzellenzcluster “Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen [Institut für Ethnologie], HPF EXC5, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 60323 Frankfurt am Main
Abstract
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries South Asian intellectuals began to develop a specifically Indian political economy – ostensibly grounded in Indigenous interests, values, norms, knowledge systems, and practices – as a response to the failure of the British colonial government to bring ‘moral and material improvement’ to the subcontinent. The article examines the relationship between colonial knowledge/power and the anti-hegemonic project of an Indian political economy, which claims to assert ‘Indigenous’ knowledge as