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Crime through time

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2013Description: 309p xxiii HBISBN:
  • 9780198077619
DDC classification:
  • DUB
Contents:
Table of contents SERIES NOTE ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; PART I. PRECOLONIAL PREMONITIONS: ; 1. WRONGS AND RIGHTS IN THE MARATHA COUNTRY: ANTIQUITY, CUSTOM AND POWER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA BY SUMIT GUHA ; 2. THE BANDIT AS KING BY MALAVIKA KASTURI; ; PART II. COLONIAL CONCERNS: ; 3. FRAMED, BLAMED AND RENAMED: THE RECASTING OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE IN MODERN ASIAN STUDIES BY SCOTT ALAN KUGLE ; 4. DISCIPLINING AND POLICING THE 'CRIMINALS BY BIRTH': DEVELOPMENT OF A DISCIPLINARY SYSTEM, 1871-1900 BY SANJAY NIGAM ; 5. CRIMINAL COMMUNITIES BY RADHIKA SINGHA ; 6. POLICE AND PUBLIC ORDER BY RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR ; 7. DISCIPLINING 'NATIVES': PRISONS AND PRISONERS IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA BY ANAND A. YANG ; 8. THE SELF AND THE CELL: INDIAN PRISON NARRATIVES AS LIFE HISTORIES BY DAVID ARNOLD ; PART III. LEGALITIES AND ILLEGALITIES: ; 9. AMBIGUITY BY RANAJIT GUHA ; 10. THE EMERGENCE OF FEMINISM IN INDIA, 1850-1920 BY PADMA ANAGOL ; 11. TELLING TALES BY SAURABH DUBE ; PART IV. POSTCOLONIAL PREDILECTIONS ; 12. OUTLAW WOMAN: THE POLITICS OF PHOOLAN DEVI BY RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN ; 13. DEATH OF A KOTWAL: THE INJURIOUS POLITICS OF RECOGNITION BY ANUPAMA RAO ; 14. SEMIOTICS OF TERROR: MUSLIM CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN HINDU RASHTRA BY TANIKA SARKAR ; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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Table of contents
SERIES NOTE ;
PREFACE ;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ;
INTRODUCTION ;
PART I. PRECOLONIAL PREMONITIONS: ;
1. WRONGS AND RIGHTS IN THE MARATHA COUNTRY: ANTIQUITY, CUSTOM AND POWER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA BY SUMIT GUHA ;
2. THE BANDIT AS KING BY MALAVIKA KASTURI; ;
PART II. COLONIAL CONCERNS: ;
3. FRAMED, BLAMED AND RENAMED: THE RECASTING OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE IN MODERN ASIAN STUDIES BY SCOTT ALAN KUGLE ;
4. DISCIPLINING AND POLICING THE 'CRIMINALS BY BIRTH': DEVELOPMENT OF A DISCIPLINARY SYSTEM, 1871-1900 BY SANJAY NIGAM ;
5. CRIMINAL COMMUNITIES BY RADHIKA SINGHA ;
6. POLICE AND PUBLIC ORDER BY RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR ;
7. DISCIPLINING 'NATIVES': PRISONS AND PRISONERS IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA BY ANAND A. YANG ;
8. THE SELF AND THE CELL: INDIAN PRISON NARRATIVES AS LIFE HISTORIES BY DAVID ARNOLD ;
PART III. LEGALITIES AND ILLEGALITIES: ;
9. AMBIGUITY BY RANAJIT GUHA ;
10. THE EMERGENCE OF FEMINISM IN INDIA, 1850-1920 BY PADMA ANAGOL ;
11. TELLING TALES BY SAURABH DUBE ; PART IV. POSTCOLONIAL PREDILECTIONS ;
12. OUTLAW WOMAN: THE POLITICS OF PHOOLAN DEVI BY RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN ;
13. DEATH OF A KOTWAL: THE INJURIOUS POLITICS OF RECOGNITION BY ANUPAMA RAO ;
14. SEMIOTICS OF TERROR: MUSLIM CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN HINDU RASHTRA BY TANIKA SARKAR ;
ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY ;
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS