A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India

By Radhika Singha

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195640497
• ISBN13: 9780195640496
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 372 Pages