| A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India Contributor(s): Singha, Radhika (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195640497 ISBN-13: 9780195640496 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1998 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Social Science | Criminology - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| LCCN: 98162446 |
| Physical Information: 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Radhika Singha looks at law-making as a cultural enterprise, one in which the colonial authorities were compelled to draw upon normative codes of rank, status, and gender so as to realign them to a new, more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right. |