Subjects, citizens and law : colonial and independent India /

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Group Author: Cederlöf, Gunnel (Editor); Das Gupta, Sanjukta (Editor)
Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Item Description: "A Routledge India original"--Cover.
Carrier Form: vi, 218 pages : map ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-213) and index.
ISBN: 9781138228443 (hardback) :
1138228443 (hardback)
Index Number: KNS1726
CLC: D735.124
D935.1
Call Number: D935.1/S941
Contents: The making of subjects on British India's north-eastern frontier / Gunnel Cederlöf -- The temperment of empire : law and conquest in the late 19th-century India / Jon Wilson -- Contagious contestations : sex work, medicine and law in colonial and postcolonial Sonagachhi / Simanti Dasgupta -- Laws and colonial subjects : the subject-citizen riddle and the making of section 295(A) / Nishant Kumar -- A homeland for 'tribal' subjects : revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan government estate / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- Conflict and governance : participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India / Amit Prakash -- Refugees in India : a study of (un)equal status, treatment and prospects / Anne-Sophie Bentz -- Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s / Nitin Sinha.