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For the first time, the history of imperialism and its culture can now be studied as neither monolithic nor reductively compartmentalized, separate, distinct.1

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  1. Said, Edward, Culture and Imperialism (Chatto & Windus, 1993) xxiii.

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Chatterjee, A. (1998). Introduction. In: Representations of India, 1740–1840. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378162_1

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