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Much of Professor Arnold's early research concerning local political groupings and their role in fermenting nationalism in India typified the 'history from below' approach that dominated the writing of history in the west in the late 1960s and 1970s.

From the late 1970s, however, Arnold began to focus more on the effects of colonial power in producing discourse relating to matters as diverse as policing, criminality, famine and, indeed, the interpretation of the body. This approach is perhaps best seen in Colonising the Body.

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