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Legible Bodies - Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia (Hardcover, New)
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Legible Bodies - Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia (Hardcover, New)
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From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British
incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails
and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements
overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman
Islands. Legible Bodies explores the treatment of these native
criminals and sheds light on a largely overlooked practice of
empire. British penal administrators created a series of elaborate
mechanisms to render criminal bodies legible. They introduced
visual tags to identify prisoners and convicts, seeking to mark
and/or read them both as individuals and as members of broader
penal categories. The first broad theme of the book discusses the
introduction of these new modes of identification - penal and
decorative tattooing, clothing, photography, anthropometry and
fingerprinting - exploring their frequent failures and prisoner and
convict resistance against them. The second theme of the book
considers the ways in which the colonial authorities atempted to
use the Indian body to construct broader social groupings, both in
relation to penal hierarchies and in the making of soiological
categories of 'criminal types'. Thirdly, the author looks at the
ways in which incarcerated communities comprised a convenient
sample for colonial explorations of the nature and significance of
race and caste in the Indian subcontinent. Scientists and
ethnographers used prisoners to explore biological and social
manifestations of the Indian other. Through a careful reading of
convicts legible bodies, the author provides a new perspective on
colonial history.
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