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State violence and punishment in India
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Title
State violence and punishment in India / Taylor C. Sherman.
ISBN
9780415559706 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415559707 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203865316 (ebook)
0203865316 (ebook)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 246 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2010
Series
Royal Asiatic Society books
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : state violence and punishment in India, 1919-56
Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and the limits of state power in India, 1919-20
Disobedience and discord : the non-cooperation movement, 1920-25
Extra-judicial punishments and the civil disobedience movement, 1930-34
Legislating against communal violence : the United Provinces Goonda Act and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-38
The hunger strikes of the Lahore Conspiracy Case prisoners, 1929-39
The Second World War and India's coercive network, 1939-46
Partition and the transitional state in India, 1947-48
The police action in Hyderabad and the making of the postcolonial state in India, 1947-56
Conclusion : rethinking colonial punishment, reassessing postcolonial India.
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