Colonial authority in India was staged as an exhibition of penetration

Evidence

30 Bernard Cohen discusses a similar process of penetration in colonial India, and relates it in a similar way to the larger process of organising an exhibition of colonial authority: ‘Representing authority in Victorian India’ in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 936

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bernard Cohn’s ‘Representing Authority in Victorian India’ in The Invention of Tradition — the same Hobsbawm/Ranger volume that anchors my thinking on the ‘invention of tradition’ framework.