The Boot and the Spleen

When Was Murder Possible in British India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2108378
AutoresJordanna Bailkin (University of Washington, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen48
Número2
Páginas462-493
Fecha de publicación2006-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s001041750600017x
OpenAlexW1972523293
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas35

Could Britons in India commit murder? More precisely, could they be prosecuted and sentenced for doing so? As these epigraphs suggest, the Raj was deeply preoccupied with elaborating minute taxonomies of violence and death. In a variety of ways, British violence toward indigenes was made an object of policy initiatives by the Government of India. Defining violence, both indigenous and foreign, was one key task of the Raj, along with clarifying the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate violence. But this boundary shifted constantly over the colonial period, and indeed, it has continued to do so ever since. Given the extensive legal violence of colonial conquest, when and why were specific acts of white violence defined as murder

Ancient history · Colonialism · Commit · CONQUEST · Criminology · Government (linguistics) · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts