Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975.

By Radha Kumar. Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police acted as tools of the state in deploying rigid notions of caste, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.

Cornell University Press (2021) 249 pages.