Further Reading

Confronting a Colonial Archive
Further Reading

For further reading on archives and colonialism, please see:

Carter, Rodney G. S. “Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence.” Archivaria, Sept. 2006, pp. 215–33.

Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. Routledge, 2021.

Cohn, Bernard S. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge : The British in India. Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Gopal, Priyamvada. "On Decolonisation and the University." Textual Practice, vol. 35, no. 6,  2021, pp. 873-899, DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1929561

Guha, Ranajit, A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Mccracken, Krista. “Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canadian Archives.” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 2, May 2019, pp. 182–201.

Menon, Minakshi. “Indigenous Knowledges and Colonial Sciences in South Asia.” South Asian History and Culture, vol. 1-18, 2021, pp. 1–18, DOI:10.1080/19472498.2021.2001198.

Schwartz, Joan M., and Terry Cook. “Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory.” Archival Science, vol. 2, no. 1–2, Mar. 2002, pp. 1–19.

Trautmann, Thomas R. The Madras school of orientalism: producing knowledge in colonial South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1, Sept. 2012.

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This portrait by Mary Symonds shows a man holding a manuscript written on palm leaves (ola).