Introduction

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This chapter entails a discussion of significant issues such as the character of their transfer from imperialist Britain to India, mechanisms of their diffusion and response of Indians, especially intellectuals. The task of unravelling this multi-layered process must keep in view the fact of the prolonged cultural encounter at many levels between India and Britain. It implicated a keen contest of two cultures including their religious, literary and scientific traditions of knowledge, techniques, ideologies of governance as well as modes and relations of production. In the context of colonial India, Ainslie Embree has argued that the mapping and demarcation of clearly defined territorial boundaries was one of the key factors contributing to the transformation of a ‘trading company into a state’. The colonial administrator-cum-ethnographer found it more suitable for classification, enumeration and social control because it embraced the whole of India and almost all segments of society.

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