Archisman Patra PhD Student

Supervised by Dr. Jim Clifford

This research explores the structure of Information Order (developed by British historian C.A. Bayly) in the British Malabar District of India (specifically 1800-1890) and explores the position of European planters as one of the major socio-economic groups who effected the production and circulation of regional ecological, climatological, and commercial knowledge. Throughout my research work, my primary aim is to trace the epistemological network related to nature, built and managed by local Malabar landed elites and European planters, and the character of their relationship with the colonial government. This research also aims to examine the development of colonial resource management practices within the British Imperial System, focusing on how information order posed challenges to Britain’s Indian Empire and the strategies employed by local land-based elites, planters, and colonial authority to assess the productive power of Malabar’s natural space

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