Subjects, citizens and law : colonial and independent India / / edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Sanjukta Das Gupta.
. – First South Asia edition.
. – New York : Routledge, 2017
vi, 218 pages : ; 23 cm
"A Routledge India original"--Cover.
The making of subjects on British India's north-eastern frontier / Gunnel Cederlöf -- The temperment of empire : law and conquest in the late 19th-century India / Jon Wilson -- Contagious contestations : sex work, medicine and law in colonial and postcolonial Sonagachhi / Simanti Dasgupta -- Laws and colonial subjects : the subject-citizen riddle and the making of section 295(A) / Nishant Kumar -- A homeland for 'tribal' subjects : revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan government estate / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- Conflict and governance : participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India / Amit Prakash -- Refugees in India : a study of (un)equal status, treatment and prospects / Anne-Sophie Bentz -- Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s / Nitin Sinha.
ISBN9781138743939 (hbk) : Rs. 750.00
1. Citizenship – India. 1. Rule of law – India. 1. Constitutional history – India.
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