Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India:acting like a thief
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex Malden, MA |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | viii, 163 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781405120579 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1405120576 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | D735 |
CLC: | D735.188 |
Call Number: | D735.188/S411 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Placing criminals, displacing thuggee: historical representation, "fact," and stereotype, c. 1830-2005 -- How to make a thug: recipes for producing crime, 1830-1910 -- Discipline, labor, salvation: repression, reform, and the thuggee precedent -- Acting like a thief: from aesthetics of survival to the politics of liberation. |