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Colonial administrators helped to construct the very traditionalism which marked the Indian society as ‘backward’. Comment critically.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

The statement contains a circle worth exposing. Colonial rule justified itself by India's backwardness, and backwardness was located in its "tradition". The claim is that the administration did not merely encounter that tradition: through survey, census, code and court it gave tradition a fixity it had never possessed, and then read the fixity as proof…

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  • How tradition was manufactured
  • Where the claim overreaches
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