Police matters : the everyday state and caste politics in south India, 1900-1975 /
Radha Kumar.
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]
- xix, 241 p. : ill. (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside in twentieth-century south India"--
9781501761065 (pbk.)
Caste --Political aspects --History.--India --Tamil Nadu Caste-based discrimination --History --India --Tamil Nadu --20th century. Law enforcement --History --India --Tamil Nadu --20th century. Police --History --India --Tamil Nadu --20th century. Police-community relations --History --India --Tamil Nadu --20th century.