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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150353603321

Titolo

Subjects, citizens and law : colonial and independent India / / edited by Gunnel Cederlof and Sanjukta Das Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-40196-7

1-315-40198-3

1-138-68858-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

CederlofGunnel

Das GuptaSanjukta

Disciplina

950

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Asia

Asia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Routledge India original"--cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

1. The making of subjects on British India's North-eastern frontier / Gunnel Cederlof -- 2. The temperament of empire : law and conquest in late 19th-century India / Jon Wilson -- 3. Contagious contestations : sex work, medicine and law in colonial and postcolonial Sonagachhi / Simanti Dasgupta -- 4. Laws and colonial subjects : the subject-citizen riddle and the making of section 295 (A) / Nishant Kumar -- 5. A homeland for 'tribal' subjects : revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan government estate / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- 6. Conflict and governance : participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India / Amit Prakash -- 7. Refugees in India : a study of (un)equal status, treatment and prospects / Anne-Sophie Bentz -- 8. Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s / Nitin Sinha.

Sommario/riassunto

Contributed articles presented at a seminar, organized by the Department of History, University of Pune in December 2013; on the history of Southeast Asia.