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Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry of Montana: For the Year Ended November 30, 1894 As the census of 1895 is the first to be taken by the State, I deemed it desirable to procure from the U. S. Superintendent of the Census and from Hon. W. O. Speer, Super visor oi the Census of Montana in 1890, information that might be of value to the State and the Commissioner relative to the methods and expens...

The first comprehensive history of the consumption and control of cannabis in the UK. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with key figures, it shows that both the market for the drug and government approaches to it have been intimately shaped by the wider currents of social and political transition in the UK.

This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills, examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quic...

The human body in modern South Asia is a continuous political enterprise. The body was central to the project of British colonialism, as well as to the Indian response to colonial rule. By constructing British bodies as normative and disciplined, and Indian bodies as deviant and undisciplined, the British could construct an ideology of their own fitness for political power and defence of colonialism itself. The politics of physicality then man...

The human body in modern South Asia is a continuous political enterprise. The body was central to the project of British colonialism, as well as to the Indian response to colonial rule. By constructing British bodies as normative and disciplined, and Indian bodies as deviant and undisciplined, the British could construct an ideology of their own fitness for political power and defence of colonialism itself. The politics of physicality then man...

Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry of Montana: For the Year Ended November 30, 1894 As the census of 1895 is the first to be taken by the State, I deemed it desirable to procure from the U. S. Superintendent of the Census and from Hon. W. O. Speer, Super visor oi the Census of Montana in 1890, information that might be of value to the State and the Commissioner relative to the methods and expens...

A unique volume about the relationship between politics and sport in South Asia.

Sport in South Asia has a long and varied history that is often dramatic, sometimes violent, and which always promises to reveal much about the broader currents that have shaped culture and society. Some 100 years ago, an Indian became the star of England's cricket team, an 'Untouchable' was offered a contract in the English domestic cricket league, and an Indian win in a football match against an English Regiment was celebrated by a crowd of ...