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Iterations of Law: Legal Histories from India advances new perspectives on legal history from South Asia. While earlier historians looked at the results rather than the performance of law, the contributors to this volume examine the socioeconomic and political contexts that shape law-making and its practice.
The chapters of this volume interrogate ‘from below’ the framing of legal regimes, and explore the physical and epistemic violence of colonial ...
Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of empire. Bhavani Raman uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy.
Drawing on extensive archival research in the flies of the East India Company's administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a bureaucracy gone awry in a fever of documentation practices that grew ever more ...