Radhika Singha
Biographic Data
| ID | 306032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radhika Singha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radhika |
| FAMILY NAME | Singha |
| SIGNATURE | SINGHA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Clarifications on The Coolie's Great War: Indian labour in a global conflict, 1914–1921 by Radhika Singha (Review)
Clarifications on The Coolie's Great War Indian labour in a global conflict, 1914–1921 by Radhika Singha (Review). Radhika Singha The author would like to make the following clarifications in regard to the review published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2021: 1. The Kuki-Chin uprising took place not in Mizoram but along the Manipur-Burma border. 1 2. The author did not "show" that upper castes were…
The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921
Though largely invisible in histories of World War one, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian Army were followers or non-combatants. From porters and construction workers in the ‘Coolie Corps’, to ‘menial’ servants and those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha draws upon their story to give the sub-continent an integral rather than ‘external’ place in this world –wide conflict. The labor …
The “Rare Infliction”: The Abolition of Flogging in the Indian Army, circa 1835–1920
“the very rarity is argument for retention” On September 2, 1920, an amendment to the Indian Army Act abolished corporal punishment for the Indian soldier and follower and introduced field punishment as a substitute on active service. This emancipation from the lash and the rattan came approximately 40 years after flogging had been abolished for the British soldier by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1881. This article examines two distinc…
The Short Career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917–1919
This essay adds the story of the Indian Labour Corps (ILC) to the narratives of the various “coloured” units brought in to France to deal with the manpower crisis that had overtaken that theater of the First World War in 1916. The label “coloured” or “native labour” justified inferior care and a harsher work and disciplinary regime than that experienced by white labor. However, official reports and newspaper coverage also expose a dense play of e…
Punished by Surveillance: Policing 'dangerousness' in colonial India, 1872-1918
This article examines the way in which legal codification, the scrutiny of the high courts, and the expansion of the 'native Bar' restructured colonial 'preventive policing'. Habitual Offender legislation in England targeted the ex-convict, but in India the bad-livelihood sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC sections 109-110) permitted a far more flexible construction of 'habituality'. They illustrate the degree to which summary judic…
The Great War and a ‘Proper’ Passport for the Colony: Border-Crossing in British India, c.1882–1922
Racial controls on Indian migration to the British Dominions can explain only some features of the compulsory passport regime as it crystallised in India during the Great War. The streaming of population movement across India’s borders was shaped by regional geo-political imperatives as well. While race issues certainly haunted the Indian intelligentsia’s stance on border management, its positions were also shaped by the class and gender paramete…
Finding Labor from India for the War in Iraq: The Jail Porter and Labor Corps, 1916-1920
In the bleak spring of 1916, a military note expostulated about the slowness with which the Government of India was finding coolies and porters for British forces in Mesopotamia. At first, labor could be obtained only from tribals of the Santhal Parganas and Chota Nagpur and by tapping Indian jails: 'Could there possibly have been a greater opportunity for India with millions of men not usable as soldiers, to take a larger share in the war, or ev…
Colonial Law and Infrastructural Power: Reconstructing Community, Locating the Female Subject
Settle, Mobilize, Verify: Identification Practices in Colonial India
A despotism of law: Crime and justice in early colonial India
Making the domestic more domestic: Criminal law and the 'head of the household', 1772-1843
No Needless Pains or Unintended Pleasures: Penal 'Reform' in the Colony, 1825-45
The privilege of taking life: Some 'anomalies' in the law of homicide in the Bengal Presidency
Providential' Circumstances: The Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s and Legal Innovation
In his historical defence of the record of the East India Company in India Kaye headed his chapter on thuggee with the following summary of contents: 'Thuggee-Increased knowledge of the Habits of the People-Its Results'. It was with the flourish of mystery unveiled and mastered that a group of officers of the Political Department had lobbied for special operations against this 'murderous fraternity' and for special laws to deal with it
A despotism of law: Crime and justice in early colonial India
Providential' Circumstances: The Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s and Legal Innovation
In his historical defence of the record of the East India Company in India Kaye headed his chapter on thuggee with the following summary of contents: 'Thuggee-Increased knowledge of the Habits of the People-Its Results'. It was with the flourish of mystery unveiled and mastered that a group of officers of the Political Department had lobbied for special operations against this 'murderous fraternity' and for special laws to deal with it
Settle, Mobilize, Verify: Identification Practices in Colonial India
Punished by Surveillance: Policing 'dangerousness' in colonial India, 1872-1918
This article examines the way in which legal codification, the scrutiny of the high courts, and the expansion of the 'native Bar' restructured colonial 'preventive policing'. Habitual Offender legislation in England targeted the ex-convict, but in India the bad-livelihood sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC sections 109-110) permitted a far more flexible construction of 'habituality'. They illustrate the degree to which summary judic…
The Great War and a ‘Proper’ Passport for the Colony: Border-Crossing in British India, c.1882–1922
Racial controls on Indian migration to the British Dominions can explain only some features of the compulsory passport regime as it crystallised in India during the Great War. The streaming of population movement across India’s borders was shaped by regional geo-political imperatives as well. While race issues certainly haunted the Indian intelligentsia’s stance on border management, its positions were also shaped by the class and gender paramete…
Finding Labor from India for the War in Iraq: The Jail Porter and Labor Corps, 1916-1920
In the bleak spring of 1916, a military note expostulated about the slowness with which the Government of India was finding coolies and porters for British forces in Mesopotamia. At first, labor could be obtained only from tribals of the Santhal Parganas and Chota Nagpur and by tapping Indian jails: 'Could there possibly have been a greater opportunity for India with millions of men not usable as soldiers, to take a larger share in the war, or ev…
Making the domestic more domestic: Criminal law and the 'head of the household', 1772-1843
The privilege of taking life: Some 'anomalies' in the law of homicide in the Bengal Presidency
The “Rare Infliction”: The Abolition of Flogging in the Indian Army, circa 1835–1920
“the very rarity is argument for retention” On September 2, 1920, an amendment to the Indian Army Act abolished corporal punishment for the Indian soldier and follower and introduced field punishment as a substitute on active service. This emancipation from the lash and the rattan came approximately 40 years after flogging had been abolished for the British soldier by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1881. This article examines two distinc…
Colonial Law and Infrastructural Power: Reconstructing Community, Locating the Female Subject
The Short Career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917–1919
This essay adds the story of the Indian Labour Corps (ILC) to the narratives of the various “coloured” units brought in to France to deal with the manpower crisis that had overtaken that theater of the First World War in 1916. The label “coloured” or “native labour” justified inferior care and a harsher work and disciplinary regime than that experienced by white labor. However, official reports and newspaper coverage also expose a dense play of e…
The privilege of taking life: Some 'anomalies' in the law of homicide in the Bengal Presidency
Providential' Circumstances: The Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s and Legal Innovation
In his historical defence of the record of the East India Company in India Kaye headed his chapter on thuggee with the following summary of contents: 'Thuggee-Increased knowledge of the Habits of the People-Its Results'. It was with the flourish of mystery unveiled and mastered that a group of officers of the Political Department had lobbied for special operations against this 'murderous fraternity' and for special laws to deal with it
No Needless Pains or Unintended Pleasures: Penal 'Reform' in the Colony, 1825-45
Making the domestic more domestic: Criminal law and the 'head of the household', 1772-1843
A despotism of law: Crime and justice in early colonial India
Settle, Mobilize, Verify: Identification Practices in Colonial India
Colonial Law and Infrastructural Power: Reconstructing Community, Locating the Female Subject
Finding Labor from India for the War in Iraq: The Jail Porter and Labor Corps, 1916-1920
In the bleak spring of 1916, a military note expostulated about the slowness with which the Government of India was finding coolies and porters for British forces in Mesopotamia. At first, labor could be obtained only from tribals of the Santhal Parganas and Chota Nagpur and by tapping Indian jails: 'Could there possibly have been a greater opportunity for India with millions of men not usable as soldiers, to take a larger share in the war, or ev…
The Great War and a ‘Proper’ Passport for the Colony: Border-Crossing in British India, c.1882–1922
Racial controls on Indian migration to the British Dominions can explain only some features of the compulsory passport regime as it crystallised in India during the Great War. The streaming of population movement across India’s borders was shaped by regional geo-political imperatives as well. While race issues certainly haunted the Indian intelligentsia’s stance on border management, its positions were also shaped by the class and gender paramete…
The Short Career of the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917–1919
This essay adds the story of the Indian Labour Corps (ILC) to the narratives of the various “coloured” units brought in to France to deal with the manpower crisis that had overtaken that theater of the First World War in 1916. The label “coloured” or “native labour” justified inferior care and a harsher work and disciplinary regime than that experienced by white labor. However, official reports and newspaper coverage also expose a dense play of e…
Punished by Surveillance: Policing 'dangerousness' in colonial India, 1872-1918
This article examines the way in which legal codification, the scrutiny of the high courts, and the expansion of the 'native Bar' restructured colonial 'preventive policing'. Habitual Offender legislation in England targeted the ex-convict, but in India the bad-livelihood sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC sections 109-110) permitted a far more flexible construction of 'habituality'. They illustrate the degree to which summary judic…
The “Rare Infliction”: The Abolition of Flogging in the Indian Army, circa 1835–1920
“the very rarity is argument for retention” On September 2, 1920, an amendment to the Indian Army Act abolished corporal punishment for the Indian soldier and follower and introduced field punishment as a substitute on active service. This emancipation from the lash and the rattan came approximately 40 years after flogging had been abolished for the British soldier by the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1881. This article examines two distinc…
The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921
Though largely invisible in histories of World War one, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian Army were followers or non-combatants. From porters and construction workers in the ‘Coolie Corps’, to ‘menial’ servants and those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha draws upon their story to give the sub-continent an integral rather than ‘external’ place in this world –wide conflict. The labor …
Clarifications on The Coolie's Great War: Indian labour in a global conflict, 1914–1921 by Radhika Singha (Review)
Clarifications on The Coolie's Great War Indian labour in a global conflict, 1914–1921 by Radhika Singha (Review). Radhika Singha The author would like to make the following clarifications in regard to the review published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2021: 1. The Kuki-Chin uprising took place not in Mizoram but along the Manipur-Burma border. 1 2. The author did not "show" that upper castes were…
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