01872nam a22002537a 4500 20221019104239.0 221019b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781107404137 Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035 : ZBD0482 : 15/10/2022 353.40 KOL Kolsky, Elizabeth. Colonial justice in British India /Elizabeth. Kolsky. , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010. xi, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 2645 White 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 This 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 History India Race relations History Race relations Colonialism Elizabeth Kolsky. BOOK 59705 59705 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-10-19 Zafaa Books 2645.00 0 353.40 KOL 28907 2022-10-19 00:00:00 2022-10-19 BOOK