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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