The Sigur Center for Asian Studies is hosting Thomas Simpson in the second edition of the 2021 New Books in Asian Studies series to discuss The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century with Director Benjamin D. Hopkins.
Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike.
