Author: M. SubramaniamPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
The Law Reports of British India
Author: M. SubramaniamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Colonial Justice in British India
Author: Elizabeth KolskyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521116862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Colonial 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.
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Author: Tirthankar RoyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022638764X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."
The Indian Law Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Law Reports
Author: Great BritainA Complete List of British and Colonial Law Reports and Legal Periodicals
Author: William Harold MaxwellPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363110
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Law Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
The Law Reports
Author: Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Inglorious Empire
Author: Shashi TharoorPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780141987149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
An Empire on Trial
Author: Martin J. WienerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139473441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of its workings. An Empire on Trial is of interest to those concerned with race, empire, or criminal justice, and to historians of modern Britain or of colonial Australia, India, Kenya, or the Caribbean. Political and post-colonial theorists writing on liberalism and empire, or race and empire, will also find this book invaluable.