The male state
Colonialism, corruption and rape investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta c.1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8109370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Saha (0000-0001-8023-8294, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 343-376 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001946461004700303 |
| OpenAlex | W2069704506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 41 |
At the turn of the twentieth century British colonial officials imagined women in Burma to be distinctly more liberated than their sisters in other quarters of British India, but this posed a set of specific problems. The perceived influence women held over their husbands in official positions led to fears that they caused corruption. Women represented private interests infiltrating public duties. Thus the desired, normative subordinate colonial official was assertively masculine and in a position of authority over their female spouse. In this colonial desire there was a curious parallel with the everyday acts of misconduct committed by subordinate officials that was most apparent in rape investigations. Indigenous women faced great difficulties, even dangers, when seeking redress for crimes of gendered violence due to the machinations of subordinate state employees. High-ranking British officials demonstrated at best indifference, at worst suspicion, concerning women’s accusations. These everyday acts of subordinate officials were more important in gendering the colonial state than has been previously recognised
Colonialism · Criminology · Indigenous · Language change · Misconduct · Normative · Political science · Redress · Sociology · Spouse · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Forensics, body and state power in South Asia
The Law of the New Hebrides is the Protector of their Lawlessness”
On the colonial frontier
Law and Order, the Rule of Law, and the Legitimation of the Colonial Presence in Late British Burma
Among the Beasts of Burma
The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma
Madness and the Making of a Colonial Order in Burma
Rule-of-law Lineages in Colonial and Early Post-colonial Burma
Family fortunes
Recasting women
Race, sex, and class under the Raj
Castes of Mind
The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution
Contentious Traditions
Stories of Gender and Ethnicity
Woman and Empire
Gender and Empire
Feminist Theory and the Body
Gender and the Politics of History
Colonial masculinity
Affect, Memory, and Materiality
The Body Evidencing the Crime’
Privates off Parade
Colonial Law and Infrastructural Power
Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
The Burman, His Life and Notions
Gender and imperialism
The 'Traditional' High Status of Women in Burma
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
No Bond but the Law
The Position of Women in Burma
Making Faces
Half-cast
Masculinity and Madness
Along the Archival Grain
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Imperial Leather
The Harim and the Purdah
Blurred Boundaries
Looking Like a State
The Boot and the Spleen
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |