In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work.

In 1947, India was a nation on life support. The departing British Empire left behind a hollow shell: 75% of the population trapped in subsistence farming, literacy at a dismal 17%, and a per capita ...

Geographies of state transformation : the production of colonial state space -- Envisioning the colonial economy -- Mobile incarceration : travels in colonial state space -- Colonial pedagogical ...