01818nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801030007608200150017910000230019424500590021726000550027630000530033136500090038450504270039352006660082065000120148665000330149865000190153165000160155070000220156620221019104239.0221019b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9781107404137 aZafaa Books & Distributorsb: 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035c: ZBD0482d: 15/10/2022 a353.40 KOL aKolsky, Elizabeth. aColonial justice in British Indiac/Elizabeth. Kolsky. a, Cambridgeb: Cambridge University Pressc, 2010. axi, 252 pagesb : illustrations, maps c; 24 cm. b2645 aWhite peril : law and lawlessness in early colonial India Citizens, subjects, and subjection to law : codification and the legal construction of racial differences Indian human nature : evidence, experts, and the elusive pursuit of truth One scale of justice for the planter and another for the coolie : law and violence on the Assam tea plantations A judicial scandal : the imperial conscience and the race against empire aThis book examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial India. By foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of European characters - planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors - the author argues that violence was not an exceptional but an ordinary part of British rule in the subcontinent. Despite the pledge of equality, colonial legislation and the practices of white judges, juries and police placed most Europeans above the law, literally allowing them to get away with murder. The failure to control these unruly whites revealed how the weight of race and the imperatives of command imbalanced the scales of colonial justice aHistory aIndia Race relations History aRace relations aColonialism aElizabeth Kolsky.