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Inscribing Colonial Monumentality: A Case Study of the 1763 Patna Massacre Memorial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2007

Rebecca M. Brown
Rebecca M. Brown
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[email protected] independent scholar of eighteenth- to twentieth-centry South Asian art.
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Contingency, Knowledge & Colonial Rule
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 91 - 113
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