Author: India. Jail Committee
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Category : Prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Great Britain. Indian Jails Committee
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Ranajit Guha
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, was begun with the goal of examining the subsequent history of colonized countries. This new group of essays from the Collective's founders chart the course of subaltern history from early peasant revolts and insurgency to more complex processes of domination and subordination in a variety of changing institutions and practices.

Author: Gajendra Singh
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1780938209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience? How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters, Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies – chiefly letters, depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story and is an important contribution to histories of the British Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.

Author: Amarendra Mohanty
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788170243083
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520250761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Author: Indian Economic Society
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Taylor C. Sherman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135224854
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meanings and reinterpreted acts of state violence in their own political campaigns. This work examines state violence from a historical perspective, expanding the study of punishment beyond the prison by investigating the interplay between imprisonment, corporal punishment, collective fines and state violence. It provides a fresh look at seminal events in the history of mid-twentieth century India, such as the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, the non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements, the Quit India campaign, and the Hindu-Muslim riots of the 1930s and 1940s. The book extends its analysis into the postcolonial period by considering the ways in which partition and then the struggle against a communist insurgency reshaped practices of punishment and state violence in the first decade after independence. Ultimately, this research challenges prevailing conceptions of the nature of the state in colonial and postcolonial India, which have tended to assume that the state had the ambition and the ability to use the police, military and bureaucracy to dominate the population at will. It argues, on the contrary, that the state in twentieth-century India tended to be self-limiting, vulnerable, and replete with tensions. Relevant to those interested in contemporary India and the history of empire and decolonisation, this work provides a new framework for the study of state violence which will be invaluable to scholars of South Asian studies; violence, crime and punishment; and colonial and postcolonial history.

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Languages : en
Pages : 506

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