According to Asiatic Researches where colonial aesthetes, historians and critics documented and offered detailed commentaries on native styles, 'colonial cultures' was Not a conjunction of -
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a detailed administrative appropriation of such studies for policy making
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a determined set of institutional structures to implement 1 the policies
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euro-centric perspective of eulogising the native culture from a post-colonial vantage point
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a thorough study of various aspects of native cultures