Leigh Denault
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh Denault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Denault |
| SIGNATURE | DENAULT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newnham College, University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Akbar or Aurangzeb? Ethics, Empire, and Print Publics in Colonial India
In the 1870s, Indian news editors warned their readers of a series of crises threatening India. They saw the famines, wars, and poverty that they were describing as symptoms of the same illness: Colonial governors had failed to implement an ethical system of governance, and had therefore failed to create a healthy body politic, choosing to expend energy in punishing or censoring dissent when they should have been constructing more durable civic i…
Little Republics or Petty Republics
Alternately seen as a local-level court of arbitration, a union or committee, or village or municipal council, the concept of the South Asian panchayat was a sociopolitical and legal palimpsest. Retaining traces of meaning accrued from multiple incarnations, contestations, and appropriations, it would become a touchstone for early Indian liberals, radicals, and nationalists, as well as for imperialists concerned with the local devolution of sover…
The Home and the World
Histories of the family and household in South Asia, while they appear at first to represent a micro‐historical and regional approach, have in recent years engaged with global histories of ideas and material culture. This article argues that studying ‘imperial social formation’ at the level of the family provides important insights into the ways in which global and local forces interact and coexist. It provides us with the means to write a ‘thick…
North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State
The ‘colonial archive’ of India is famous for its elisions and silences, particularly where the ‘domestic’ is concerned. If even textual evidence for women’s lives or the details of everyday household life is scarce and fragmentary, then surely there would be nothing more difficult than searching for physical traces of a vanished world in an archive whose architects professed a policy of indifference to the domestic lives of their subjects. Yet t…
Partition and the politics of the joint family in nineteenth-century north India
Using nineteenth-century case law, legal and social theory, and ethnography, this essay will examine colonial attempts to coalesce complex relational identities into individual and collective ones, and to create ‘the Hindu joint family’ as a codified ritual and property-holding collective. Focussing on texts and court cases that considered the ‘joint family’ as a social unit under siege or a property collective at the point of dissolution, we can…
Partition and the politics of the joint family in nineteenth-century north India
Using nineteenth-century case law, legal and social theory, and ethnography, this essay will examine colonial attempts to coalesce complex relational identities into individual and collective ones, and to create ‘the Hindu joint family’ as a codified ritual and property-holding collective. Focussing on texts and court cases that considered the ‘joint family’ as a social unit under siege or a property collective at the point of dissolution, we can…
Partition and the politics of the joint family in nineteenth-century north India
Using nineteenth-century case law, legal and social theory, and ethnography, this essay will examine colonial attempts to coalesce complex relational identities into individual and collective ones, and to create ‘the Hindu joint family’ as a codified ritual and property-holding collective. Focussing on texts and court cases that considered the ‘joint family’ as a social unit under siege or a property collective at the point of dissolution, we can…
North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State
The ‘colonial archive’ of India is famous for its elisions and silences, particularly where the ‘domestic’ is concerned. If even textual evidence for women’s lives or the details of everyday household life is scarce and fragmentary, then surely there would be nothing more difficult than searching for physical traces of a vanished world in an archive whose architects professed a policy of indifference to the domestic lives of their subjects. Yet t…
The Home and the World
Histories of the family and household in South Asia, while they appear at first to represent a micro‐historical and regional approach, have in recent years engaged with global histories of ideas and material culture. This article argues that studying ‘imperial social formation’ at the level of the family provides important insights into the ways in which global and local forces interact and coexist. It provides us with the means to write a ‘thick…
Little Republics or Petty Republics
Alternately seen as a local-level court of arbitration, a union or committee, or village or municipal council, the concept of the South Asian panchayat was a sociopolitical and legal palimpsest. Retaining traces of meaning accrued from multiple incarnations, contestations, and appropriations, it would become a touchstone for early Indian liberals, radicals, and nationalists, as well as for imperialists concerned with the local devolution of sover…
Akbar or Aurangzeb? Ethics, Empire, and Print Publics in Colonial India
In the 1870s, Indian news editors warned their readers of a series of crises threatening India. They saw the famines, wars, and poverty that they were describing as symptoms of the same illness: Colonial governors had failed to implement an ethical system of governance, and had therefore failed to create a healthy body politic, choosing to expend energy in punishing or censoring dissent when they should have been constructing more durable civic i…
Colonialism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)