Imperial India On Trial
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Imperial India On Trial
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Author : Kate Merz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Imperial India On Trial written by Kate Merz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
In the last decades of the British Raj, anti-colonial writers staged scenes of crime and punishment, trial and testimony, in order to interrogate the legitimacy of imperialism itself. This project examines questions of justice in British and Indian novels, with a focus on the 1920s and 1930s. I begin with a historical survey, stretching from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Western authors imagine India as a space of mystery and transgression, in tales that trade in sensationalism as well as pseudoscientific theories of race. At the same time, Enlightenment and Liberal thinkers used Eurocentric notions of "civilization" to justify exploitation and conquest. The effect of both trends was to criminalize Indian cultures. In this contested space, a "crime" is not limited to a prosecutable act. Anti-colonial writers turn the criminal domain inside out, taking guilt off the back of the "unruly" native to indict the state itself. In A Passage to India (1924), E. M. Forster uses the trial as an allegory for the imperial condition. In this racially- and sexually-charged space, it takes a set of dissenting, hybrid voices to disrupt the preordained script of Indian guilt. When state justice fails, healing is possible only in willed acts of interpersonal justice. George Orwell paints a bleaker picture in Burmese Days (1934), where all institutions are corrupt, and native enforcers (even a judge) are tainted by that corruption. Orwell's essays, "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) and "A Hanging" (1931), unmask the violent rituals of empire, finding a shared humanity in the body of the condemned. Raja Rao also interrogates the role of local collaborators, in Kanthapura (1938), yet he shifts focus away from law enforcers and onto the dissenters who protest that law. Rao creates a myth not only around Gandhi, but also around the novel's fictional village, as they imagine new forms of community. Only when all Indians unite, he suggests-across religion, gender, geography, and caste-can a form of grassroots justice prevail.
The Scandal Of Empire
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Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
The Scandal Of Empire written by Nicholas B. Dirks and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
The Indian National Army Trials 1945 46
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Indian National Army Trials 1945 46 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Decolonization categories.
An Empire On Trial
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Author : Martin J. Wiener
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-08
An Empire On Trial written by Martin J. Wiener and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-08 with History categories.
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height – examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of its workings. An Empire on Trial is of interest to those concerned with race, empire, or criminal justice, and to historians of modern Britain or of colonial Australia, India, Kenya, or the Caribbean. Political and post-colonial theorists writing on liberalism and empire, or race and empire, will also find this book invaluable.
Tryst With Martyrdom
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Author : Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Tryst With Martyrdom written by Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Trials (Political crimes and offenses) categories.
On the trial of Madan Lal Dhingra, d. 1909, Indian revolutionary.
Trial Of Tilak
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Author : PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
language : en
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Release Date : 2017-08-30
Trial Of Tilak written by PUBLICATIONS DIVISION and has been published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with categories.
This book contains a full and authentic account of the proceedings of the great historic trial in which Bal Gangadhar Tilak was tried for the offence of sedition at the Third Criminal Sessions of the High Court of Bombay from 13th to 22nd July 1908
Inglorious Empire
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Author : Shashi Tharoor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Political Science categories.
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial Times In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.
Imperial Incarceration
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Author : Michael Lobban
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Imperial Incarceration written by Michael Lobban and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with History categories.
For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's commitment to the rule of law. Was it satisfied if the sovereign validated acts of naked power by legislative forms, or could imperial subjects claim the protection of Magna Carta and the common law tradition? In this pathbreaking book, Michael Lobban explores how these matters were debated from the liberal Cape, to the jurisdictional borderlands of West Africa, to the occupied territory of Egypt, and shows how and when the demands of power undermined the rule of law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Courtly Indian Women In Late Imperial India
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Author : Angma Dey Jhala
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Courtly Indian Women In Late Imperial India written by Angma Dey Jhala and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.
Glimpses Of Imperial India
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Author : Val Cameron Prinsep
language : en
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Release Date : 1879
Glimpses Of Imperial India written by Val Cameron Prinsep and has been published by Mittal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with India categories.