TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nijhar,Preeti
TI  - Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
T2  - Empires in Perspective Series
SN  - 9781317316008
AV  - KNS3800 .N554 2016 
U1  - 364.95409034 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Constitutional law--Great Britain--Colonies
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -