This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children's literature. The included essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the ...
Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands
