He Measured Indian Faces and Helped Split a Nation
British Colonial India

He Measured Indian Faces and Helped Split a Nation

A British anthropologist sat down in Delhi in 1910 with a stack of forms and, without firing a single shot, helped make the partition of India almost inevitable.

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British Colonial IndiaSouth Asia19th Century20th CenturyColonialismIdentity and ClassificationHerbert Hope RisleyPartition of IndiaCensus and BureaucracySystemic Racism

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