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020			_a9781107404137
028			_aZafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035 _c: ZBD0482 _d: 15/10/2022
082			_a353.40 KOL
100			_aKolsky, Elizabeth.
245			_aColonial justice in British India _c/Elizabeth. Kolsky.
260			_a, Cambridge _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2010.
300			_axi, 252 pages _b : illustrations, maps _c; 24 cm.
365			_b2645
505			_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
520			_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
650			_aHistory
650			_aIndia Race relations History
650			_aRace relations
650			_aColonialism
700			_aElizabeth Kolsky.
942			_cBOOK
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