Histories of Everyday Violence In British India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7213671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Saha (0000-0001-8023-8294, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 844-853 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0542 • E-ISSN: 1478-0542 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00806.x |
| OpenAlex | W1498283358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
Historians of British India and colonial rule more generally have inevitably had to approach the difficult subject of colonial violence. Often, however, historians have explored colonial violence by focusing on exceptional and spectacular moments. Recently two books have been published that shift the terms of the historiography by examining colonial violence as an aspect of everyday life in British India: Taylor Sherman’s State Violence and Punishment in India and Elizabeth Kolsky’s Colonial Justice in British India . This article examines the limitations of the established literature’s characterisation of colonial violence, before comparing the work of Kolsky and Sherman. Both of their studies demonstrate that physical violence was an intrinsic and everyday aspect of the colonial encounter in India, and they lay the groundwork for further studies of everyday colonial violence
Archaeology · Colonialism · Corporal punishment · Criminology · Economic Justice · Everyday life · Historiography · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Health, medicine, and empire
A History of Modern Burma
A despotism of law
Castes of Mind
State/Culture
The Nation and Its Fragments
The Rangoon Jail Riot of 1930 and the Prison Administration of British Burma
Looting’ the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s
Privates off Parade
A Shooting Incident at Insein Prison, Burma, in 1947
Everyday forms of peasant resistance in South-east Asia
Disciplining ‘natives’
Tensions of Colonial Punishment
Tensions of EmpireColonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
A Commissioner calls
Making Enemies
Genealogy of a Rebellion Narrative
Thuggee, marginality and the state effect in colonial India, circa 1770–1840
Seeing the State
States of Imagination
No Bond but the Law
Making Faces
Modern Burma Studies
Problems of Violence, States of Terror
Colonial Governmentality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |