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Center for South Asia Lecture Series
The Duplicity of Paper and the Problem of Attestation in Early Colonial Madras
- Date Nov. 19, 2009
- Time noon.
- Location206 Ingraham Hall
- DescriptionBhavani Raman describes the emergence of forgery and perjury that points to an unresolved crisis in the East India Company’s Madras government in the early 19th century. This paper examines how proliferating duplicity and Company efforts to control it created a new evidentiary paradigm in the Madras region.
- Contact262-4884, info@southasia.wisc.edu
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