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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 950
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Asia History
• Altri autori: CederlofGunnel Das GuptaSanjukta
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Subjects, citizens and law
• ISBN: 1-315-40196-7; 1-315-40198-3; 1-138-68858-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150353603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II