Scholars compare colonial knowledge penetration to staging an exhibition of authority.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Merely viewing a commercial exhibition induced a rebel tribe’s submission; Colonial authority in India was staged as an exhibition of penetration — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 936; Colonial administrative overviews signaled assumed mastery rather than real knowledge — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 143 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authority in India was staged as an exhibition of penetration #corroborates (0.95) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 936