In 1947, India was a nation on life support. The departing British Empire left behind a hollow shell: 75% of the population trapped in subsistence farming, literacy at a dismal 17%, and a per capita ...

People and taxes in the eighteenth century -- Government officials and the colonial state -- Indians and the colonial state: indigenous economies, government officials, and the business of government ...

Johan Fourie receives funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he ...

Appalachian sage Wendell Berry once wrote, “Rural America is a colony, and its economy is a colonial economy. The business of America has been largely and without apology the plundering of rural ...

Geographies of state transformation : the production of colonial state space -- Envisioning the colonial economy -- Mobile incarceration : travels in colonial state space -- Colonial pedagogical ...