| Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law Contributor(s): Kolsky, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521116864 ISBN-13: 9780521116862 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: Describes the lesser-known history of the violence and criminal conduct of one group of Europeans in British India. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 353.409 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |