Crime and Criminality in British India
Author: Anand A. Yang
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Dishonoured by History
Author: Meena Radhakrishna
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788125020905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how colonial policies converted itinerant groups on the one hand into a source of cheap labour and on the other into a category known as criminal tribes . It also examines missionary activity especially the Salvation Army, in the Madras Presidency in the nineteenth century.
Colonial Justice in British India
Author: Elizabeth Kolsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-12-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521116862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonial Justice in British India describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of European characters - planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors - Elizabeth Kolsky argues that violence was not an exceptional but an ordinary part of British rule in the subcontinent. Despite the pledge of equality, colonial legislation and the practices of white judges, juries and police placed most Europeans above the law, literally allowing them to get away with murder. The failure to control these unruly whites revealed how the weight of race and the imperatives of command imbalanced the scales of colonial justice. In a powerful account of this period, Kolsky reveals a new perspective on the British Empire in India, highlighting the disquieting violence that invariably accompanied imperial forms of power.
Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India
Author: Henry Schwarz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-02-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1444317342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests stereotypes to reclaim their humanity
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Author: Eric Lewis Beverley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1107091195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.
Law and Imperialism
Author: Preeti Nijhar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1317315995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaws 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.
The Insecurity State
Author: Mark Condos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108418317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
Empire of Convicts
Author: Anand A. Yang
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0520294564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the Americas and later to Australia. Case studies from the insular prisons of Bengkulu, Penang, and Singapore illuminate another carceral regime in the Indian Ocean World that brought South Asia and Southeast Asia together through a global system of forced migration and coerced labor. A major contribution to histories of crime and punishment, prisons, law, labor, transportation, migration, colonialism, and the Indian Ocean World, Empire of Convicts narrates the experiences of Indian bandwars (convicts) and shows how they exercised agency in difficult situations, fashioning their own worlds and even becoming “their own warders.” Anand A. Yang brings long journeys across kala pani (black waters) to life in a deeply researched and engrossing account that moves fluidly between local and global contexts.
When Crime Pays
Author: Milan Vaishnav
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0300216203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.
The History of Railway Thieves
Author: M. Pauparao Naidu
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
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