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The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India - Judicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021) Loot Price: R3,256
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The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India - Judicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

Haruki Inagaki

Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions-peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes-used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government's indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company's attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company's charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.

General

Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Release date: October 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Haruki Inagaki
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 182
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-073662-0
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 3-03-073662-8
Barcode: 9783030736620

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