GGR241H1 Lecture : Bombay's "Modern Town"
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Become a space that needs to be treated. Inoculation of the city itself as well as people. Get to know and enumerate the population. We need to disinfect the city itself. Working the scale of the body all the way to city space. Make- something new transform the unknown into the known represent in a variety of ways takes this in terms of the disease. Making a set of calculation about how they should proceed. They make calculations and mobilization of material things. What sort of policy is going to be put in place: e. g. All calculation made by individual which creates material spaces. To know india census making was part of broader intellectual movement to know india. They introduces census to understand the population in india. India is an ethnographic field by european to know about that world and the knowledge can be used back in europe to gather data for urban population.