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Building Blocks of a Digital Caste Panopticon: Everyday Brahminical Policing in India

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In August 2022, in the southern Indian state of Telangana, an American dream came to fruition: the completion of a sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters for policing and surveillance. Located in the heart of Hyderabad, the state’s capital, the structure—christened the Integrated Control and Command Centre—is proudly described by the Telangana Police Department as the Indian equivalent to the New York City Police Department’s 1 Police Plaza. Comprised of five enormous twenty-story glass buildings, this “world-class construction” is the first of its kind in India—a prestige value not lost on the ruling political party in the state, which has wasted no time mobilizing it as a public symbol of the long struggle for an independent state of Telangana. The Command Centre’s origins date to soon after the state’s formation in 2014, when Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao introduced significant changes to Telangana’s policing system to attract foreign investors—a vision shared by his predece

Building Blocks of a Digital Caste Panopticon: Everyday Brahminical Policing in India Nikita Sonavane, Mrinalini R, Aditya Rawat, Ramani Mohanakrishnan and Vikas Yadav In August 2022, in the southern Indian state of Telangana, an American dream came to fruition: the completion of a sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters for policing and surveillance. Located in the heart of Hyderabad, the state’s capital, the structure—christened the Integrated Control and Command Centre —is proudly described by the Telangana Police Department as the Indian equivalent to the New York City Police Department’s

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