Chiffrage et déchiffrage : les institutions démographiques dans l'Inde du Sud coloniale - article ; n°4 ; vol.47, pg 815-840

Christophe Z.Guilmoto

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Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1992 - Volume 47 - Numéro 4 - Pages 815-840
Counts and Accounts Demographic Institutions in Colonial South India.
The old demographic institutions with their apparently deficient functioning call for two different explanatory procedures : listing all their distortions in order to criticize the data they produced and denouncing the hidden political agenda behind the objective data collection. Regardless of approach the figures will always appear deceptive or fraudulent. The goal of this paper is to understand the cycle of statistical production as it ope rated in colonial Tamil India. Contrary to the claims of historical and statistical criticism, the data collected reveal great deal about the indigenous population. And it is wrong to presume that the people passively submitted to the idle curiosity of an eccentric government without leaving any meaningful collective imprint on the raw demographic data. My contention is that the process of demographic observation has to be considered as the site of intense social and cultural negotiations that prefigured experiences and expectations of all the actors involved.
26 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: ANNALES_ECONOMIES_SOCIETES_CIVILISATIONS
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1992
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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