ABSTRACT
The colonial project is now well-explored terrain. Censuses, surveys, boundaries, grids, roads, representations, museums and all the other paraphernalia of colonialism have been mapped out and deconstructed by the critics. Instead of discovering and recording facts, we now know colonial projects created facts by constructing elaborate systems of classification and demarcation. These systems, from the right-angled field boundaries of Roman surveyors to the postage stamps of Indochina, have been mapped, surveyed and recolonized by the postcolonial critics.
