LEADER 04422nam 22006615 450 001 9910502976303321 005 20240322050205.0 010 $a9783030736637 010 $a3030736636 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-73663-7 035 $a(CKB)5140000000013044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6747907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6747907 035 $a(OCoLC)1287137353 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-73663-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)995140000000013044 100 $a20211009d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India $eJudicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century /$fby Haruki Inagaki 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (190 pages) 225 1 $aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,$x2635-1641 311 08$a9783030736620 311 08$a3030736628 327 $a1. Law and Emergency: Two Logics of Colonial Governance -- 2. Reform Public and the King's Court in Bombay City -- 3. Summonses, Writs, and Revenue Defaulters in the Mofussil -- 4. Indirect Rule Threatened by Raiders, Princes, and the King's Court -- 5. Habeas Corpus in Times of Emergency: The Bombay Dispute -- 6. Bengal, Madras, and Imperial Debate on Despotism -- 7. Epilogue and Conclusion. 330 $a"Britain's empire did not arrive fully formed in India. Haruki Inagaki's superbly-researched, well-argued book traces its emergence in a proliferating set of arguments...[and] offers a compelling account of the real life of empire in motion. A vital contribution to the burgeoning field of imperial legal history, it speaks well beyond narrow thematic categories, and is vital reading for anyone interested in the history of empire more broadly and the Indian subcontinent." - Jon Wilson, Professor, King's College London, UK This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' 'forum shopping,' the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions-peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes-used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government's indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company's attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company's charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers. Haruki Inagaki is Associate Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, having previously studied at King's College London, UK. His research focuses on the history of British colonialrule in India. He is also interested in the comparative history of British and Japanese empires. 410 0$aCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,$x2635-1641 606 $aImperialism 606 $aLaw$xHistory 606 $aAsia$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aLegal History 606 $aHistory of South Asia 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aLaw$xHistory. 615 0$aAsia$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aLegal History. 615 24$aHistory of South Asia. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a347.54 676 $a954.031 700 $aInagaki$b Haruki$01073189 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910502976303321 996 $aThe Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India$92569378 997 $aUNINA