Colonial Anthropology: Technologies and Discourses of Dominance, 1886-1936

This book examines the process of domination of a civilisation and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India. It explores how they extended and maintained their tenuous rule over India through coercion, violent oppression and exploration of knowledge of this vast region and its people.

Subhadra Mitra Channa retired as Professor at the Department of Anthropology: University of Delhi. Her research interests are in gender studies, marginalization, identity studies, urban ethnography, environment, cosmology, religion and caste studies in India. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace Fellowship U.K; Fulbright Lecturer, U.S.A 2003 and 2008-2009, was Visiting Professor to Maison D’Sciences De L’Homme, Paris, Visiting Scholar, University of Kentucky, U.S.A (2015), Visiting Professor University of Bahia, Brazil ( 2019), Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, U.S.A; President of the Indian Anthropological Association (1997-2000); S. C Roy Gold Medal( Asiatic Society). She was awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award Delhi University, 2016 as the best teacher of the university. She is the present Senior Vice-President of (IUAES) from 2018 and Chair of the Commission on Marginalization and Global Apartheid (2017-2021. Her publications include, Gender is South Asia, Life as a Dalit (ed.), The Inner and Outer Selves, Gender, Livelihood and Environment (ed.) with Marilyn Porter and Anthropological Perspectives on Indian Tribes.

Lancy Lobo holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology and a Doctoral degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has authored, co-authored, co-edited 30 books, and scores of mimeographs based on research over 40 years. He has been a professor and the Director of Centre for Social Studies, based in Surat, an institute under the Indian Council of Social Science Research Delhi. He was an International Visiting Fellow at the Woodstock Centre, Georgetown University, Washington DC in the year 1999-2000. He is the founder director of Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara which is completing 20 years. Currently he is Professor Emeritus at the Indian Social Institute, Delhi. Some of his recent publications include, with Jayesh Shah (eds.), The Legacy of Nehru: Appraisal and Analysis (2018), with A.M. Shah and Lancy Lobo (eds.) Essays on Suicide and Self-Immolation (2018), with Kanchan Bharati (eds.), Marriage and Divorce in India: Changing Concepts and Practices (2019), with A.M. Shah, An Ethnography of Parsees of India(2022), with A.M. Shah, Indian Anthropology (2022), with Dhananjay Kumar, Tribes in Western India (2022); with Subhadra Channa Mitra Religious Pluralism in India: Ethnographic and Philosophic Evidence, 1886-1936 (2023).