1st Edition

Britain in India, 1765-1905, Volume I

    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    332 Pages
    by Routledge

    Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian history. It is useful for literary, cultural and urban historians working in this area.

    Volume 1: Justice, Police, Law and Order 'Mr Secretary Dowdeswell's Report on the General State of the Police of Bengal, 29th September 1809' in W K Firminger (ed), The Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company (1917-18); John Melville, 'Answers to Court's Queries, 1813', Selection of Papers from the Records at the East-India House relating to the Revenue, Police, and Civil and Criminal Justice under the Company's Governments in India (1820-6); H Strachey, 'Answers to Court's Queries 1813', Selection of Papers from the Records at the East-India House relating to the Revenue, Police, and Civil and Criminal Justice under the Company's Governments in India (1820-6); W Thackeray, 'Answers to Court's Queries 1815', Selection of Papers from the Records at the East-India House relating to the Revenue, Police, and Civil and Criminal Justice under the Company's Governments in India (1820-6); 'Legislation Preambles and Statements of Objects and Reasons (11th May, 1835)', Minutes by Lord Macaulay (1835); 'Draft of Standing Orders for the Legislative Council of India Respective Functions of Executive and Legislative Councils (13th June, 1835)', Minutes by Lord Macaulay (1835); A Penal Code prepared by the Indian Law Commissioners (1837); 'Report on the State of the Police in the Lower Provinces for the First Six Months of 1842', Calcutta Review (1844); 'Note by the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, dated 3rd December, 1853', Papers Relating to the System of Police in the Bengal Presidency (1857); 'Minute by the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal Police and Criminal Justice in Bengal', Papers Relating to the System of Police in the Bengal Presidency (1857); Act No V of 1861 An Act for the Regulation of Police (1861); J Fitzjames Stephen, 'Does the System of Criminal and Civil Procedure Require any Modification?', Selections from the Records of the Government of India (1872); Criminal Tribes' Act, 1871, Act XXVII (1871); 'The Sonthal Rebellion', Calcutta Review (1856); Henry Faulds, 'On the Skin-Furrows of the Hand', Nature (1880); William James Herschel, 'Skin-Furrows of the Hand', Nature (1880)