Methods of managing populations, identities, space & movement (i.e. Foucaultian modernity) emerged often first in the colonies not in Europe
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What about ghettos like the Settlement of the Pale or the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt?
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Predates Europeans in India at least. Caste system had pretty rigid spatial identity management aspects by like 300 AD (Gupta) iirc.
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it seems to have existed even at the time of the indus valley civilization (approx. 2000 BC )
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No evidence for that afaik, just conjecture and circumstantial arguments like town layout. For Gupta era there is evidence, e.g. Manu Smriti
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