Radha Kumar, Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 241. $19.95 paperback (ISBN 9781501761065).
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nacularization of state initiatives at the grassroots level. It seems that the author is more successful in describing “resourceful” local people’s manipulation of Qing law to serve their interests (89) than the Republican citizens’ creative use of the new Civil Code. In addition, at points in the book the narrative flow is disrupted by repetition. Despite such minor concerns, this book is a must-read work for anyone who is interested in modern Chinese history, family–state relations, gender, and China’s changing political cultures in the past several centuries.
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