Kolsky, Elizabeth. creator Elizabeth Kolsky. text Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 monographic eng

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xi, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. 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 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 /Elizabeth. Kolsky. History India Race relations History Race relations Colonialism 353.40 KOL 9781107404137 Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035 221019 20221019104239.0