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Law and Imperialism : Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empires in Perspective SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317316008
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law and ImperialismDDC classification:
  • 364.95409034
LOC classification:
  • KNS3800 .N554 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Imperial Miasma -- 2 Theory and the Construction of Unequal Colonial Identities -- 3 Imagery and Law in the Creation of Identities -- 4 Scientific Racism and the Constitution of Difference -- 5 The 'Ethnic' as a Component of the 'Criminal' Class -- 6 Imposing Colonial Legal Identities in India -- 7 Constructing the Sansi as a 'Criminal' Class -- 8 Imperial Reflections: A Compelling Insistence -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Imperial Miasma -- 2 Theory and the Construction of Unequal Colonial Identities -- 3 Imagery and Law in the Creation of Identities -- 4 Scientific Racism and the Constitution of Difference -- 5 The 'Ethnic' as a Component of the 'Criminal' Class -- 6 Imposing Colonial Legal Identities in India -- 7 Constructing the Sansi as a 'Criminal' Class -- 8 Imperial Reflections: A Compelling Insistence -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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