Radhika Singha, "A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0195640497 | 372 pages | PDF | 48.1 MB
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0195640497 | 372 pages | PDF | 48.1 MB
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.