1st Edition
Law and Imperialism Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
By Preeti Nijhar
Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly populace. This title uses material from both British Parliamentary Papers and colonial archive material to provide evidence of legal change and response.
Chapter 1 Imperial Miasma; Chapter 2 Theory and the Constitution of Difference; Chapter 3 Imagery and Law in the Creation of Identities; Chapter 4 Scientific Racism and the Constitution of Difference; Chapter 5 The ‘Ethnic’ as a Component of the ‘Criminal’ Class; Chapter 6 Imposing Colonial Legal Identities In India; Chapter 7 Constructing the Sansi as a ‘Criminal’ Class; Chapter 8 Imperial Reflections: A Compelling Insistence;
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Preeti Nijhar
