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| There are two crucial differences to this sense of power: | There are two crucial differences to this sense of power: | ||
| - | * When you play your part in social life, power is operating on your actions. You are disciplined by the role you play, particularly in situations you think are good for you. When you play along, you make it possible to create official knowledge of populations. | + | * It takes place in settings that are ostensibly beneficial: |
| * The watchtower is everywhere, and no one is in it. Many different, independent social institutions require people who participate in them to modify themselves to fit into their roles. All of these roles teach you to see yourself the ways others see you. | * The watchtower is everywhere, and no one is in it. Many different, independent social institutions require people who participate in them to modify themselves to fit into their roles. All of these roles teach you to see yourself the ways others see you. | ||
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| These colonial regimes also relied on highly centralized control of knowledge in order to implement different kinds of subject positions for different communities (Cohn 1987; Chandra 2013). | These colonial regimes also relied on highly centralized control of knowledge in order to implement different kinds of subject positions for different communities (Cohn 1987; Chandra 2013). | ||
| - | * Backward tribes in backward tracts | + | * Backward tribes in excluded areas (or backward tracts) |
| * Criminal tribes | * Criminal tribes | ||
| + | * Martial races | ||
| Census categories are social facts with teeth. They have normative force. | Census categories are social facts with teeth. They have normative force. | ||
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