A Despotism of Law Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India |
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| Author:
| Singha, Radhika |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-564049-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.
This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.