Penal Strategies and Political Resistance in Colonial and Independent India

Ujjwal Kumar Singh ()

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Abstract: This paper will explore the discursive practices surrounding specific laws, trials, and the ideology of punishment in colonial and independent India. The purpose is to show how through this matrix of law, court and punishment, the penal system, delineated the exceptional and the extra-ordinary, and legal and penal practices commensurate with it.

Keywords: punishment; penal practices in colonial and independent India; Legal Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-08
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