Partha Pratim Shil
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Partha Pratim Shil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Partha Pratim |
| FAMILY NAME | Shil |
| SIGNATURE | SHIL P P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University , US |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c .1850–1947
In colonial Bengal, the average police constable was largely unlettered. Nevertheless, constables were at the frontline in the enforcement of colonial law. This paradox of an unlettered constabulary enforcing the letter of law defies the familiar logic in the historical scholarship on British India that associates the written word with histories of state power and orality with histories of subaltern classes. In a departure from the existing liter…
Deana Heath. Colonial Terror
Journal Article Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Get access Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. Cloth $120.00. Partha Pratim Shil Partha Pratim Shil Stanford University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Iss…
The ‘Threatened’ Constabulary Strikes of Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
This article is a study of a mode of protest devised by police constables in Bengal in the decades after World War I to negotiate better wages from the police department – ‘the strike-threat’. Existing studies of constabulary protest have worked with a linear framework. Here, reluctance to enlist and desertions are seen as ‘early’ forms of protest and unionisation and strike action as ‘mature’ ones. The phenomenon of issuing strike threats has re…
Deana Heath. Colonial Terror
Journal Article Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Get access Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. Cloth $120.00. Partha Pratim Shil Partha Pratim Shil Stanford University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Iss…
The ‘Threatened’ Constabulary Strikes of Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
This article is a study of a mode of protest devised by police constables in Bengal in the decades after World War I to negotiate better wages from the police department – ‘the strike-threat’. Existing studies of constabulary protest have worked with a linear framework. Here, reluctance to enlist and desertions are seen as ‘early’ forms of protest and unionisation and strike action as ‘mature’ ones. The phenomenon of issuing strike threats has re…
Deana Heath. Colonial Terror
Journal Article Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Get access Deana Heath. Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. Cloth $120.00. Partha Pratim Shil Partha Pratim Shil Stanford University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Iss…
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c .1850–1947
In colonial Bengal, the average police constable was largely unlettered. Nevertheless, constables were at the frontline in the enforcement of colonial law. This paradox of an unlettered constabulary enforcing the letter of law defies the familiar logic in the historical scholarship on British India that associates the written word with histories of state power and orality with histories of subaltern classes. In a departure from the existing liter…
Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · BENGAL (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works)