Kolsky's work on colonial justice in India in the context of crime and violence by Europeans in India is an important intervention in scholarship on colonial legal history in India, an area of research neglected by both historians and lawyers. In highlighting the failure of legal equality and the role of race in the making of such law, the arguments made in this book differ from previous scholarship on legal history such as that of Radhika Singha (A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), who has emphasized the reflection of the moral and political dilemmas of the colonizers themselves in the making of colonial law. Kolsky's work also differs from more recent scholarship such as that of Mithi Mukherjee (India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History 1774–1950, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,...
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May 01 2011
Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law
Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law
. By Elizabeth Kolsky. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2010
. xi, 266 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
Geetanjali Srikantan
Geetanjali Srikantan
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 620–621.
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Geetanjali Srikantan; Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. Journal of Asian Studies 1 May 2011; 70 (2): 620–621. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911811000738
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