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| Author | : Chandra Mallampalli |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : HISTORY |
| ISBN | : 9781139191050 |
"Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference in the British encounter with Indian society"--
| Author | : Chandra Mallampalli |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2011-11-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139505076 |
How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, both of whom married Eurasian women, became wealthy as distillers in the local community. A family dispute resulted in a landmark court case, Abraham v. Abraham. Chandra Mallampalli uses this case to examine the lives of those involved, and shows that far from being products of a 'civilizing mission' who embraced the ways of Englishmen, the Abrahams were ultimately - when faced with the strictures of the colonial legal system - obliged to contend with hierarchy and racial difference.
| Author | : Alexander Rocklin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781469648705 |
How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together--under the watchful eyes of the British rulers--to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion--they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives--they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.
| Author | : Elizabeth Kolsky |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-12-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781107404137 |
Colonial Justice in British India describes and 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 - Elizabeth Kolsky 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. In a powerful account of this period, Kolsky reveals a new perspective on the British Empire in India, highlighting the disquieting violence that invariably accompanied imperial forms of power.
| Author | : Arianna Kelly Tolany |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
India’s personal law system, where family law matters are rooted in religious law, has been the subject of a diverse array of historical, legal, and political scholarship. In this work, I analyze the evolving legal treatment and rhetorical use of the word “custom” in family law debates around marriage and inheritance from the nineteenth century to 1937. I use the discursive role of custom lens to analyze family law, highlighting evolutions in the family law’s structuring of sex relations and religion, which I link to broader trends in colonial governmentality. To ensure a discussion of both Hindu and Muslim personal law, I conduct discourse analysis of colonial jurists, as well as agitation around the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act and the 1937 Hindu Women’s Right to Property and Shariat Acts. By assessing these sources, I show how custom helped to structure Hindu and Muslim personal law as parallel legal regimes, how custom discursively played into the alliance between women’s rights organizations and nationalist organizations, and how custom became rhetorically deployed with increasingly communal overtones by the 1930’s. Through using custom as a cross-communal lens to analyze family law reform, I demonstrate how the personal law system gendered legal identity through property and conjugality, situating my work in a broader body of literature on colonialism’s relationship with law, property, and women’s rights
| Author | : Harald Fischer-Tiné |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2021-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0429774699 |
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and ‘turns’ within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts: Overarching Themes and Debates The World of Economy and Labour Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education Environment and Space Culture, Media, and the Everyday Colonial South Asia in the World The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.
| Author | : Satoshi Mizutani |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2011-10-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199697701 |
A study of how the 'whiteness' of Europeans was constructed in the colonial situation, using British India of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a case study.
| Author | : Chie Ikeya |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2024-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1501777165 |
In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective violence. Over the course of the twentieth century relations between Burmese Muslims, Sino-Burmese, Indo-Burmese, and other mixed families and communities became flashpoints for far-reaching legal reforms and Buddhist revivalist, feminist, and nationalist campaigns aimed at consigning minority Asians to subordinate status and regulating women's conjugal and reproductive choices. Out of these efforts emerged understandings of religion, race, and nation that continue to vex Burma and its neighbors today. Combining multilingual archival research with family history and intergenerational storytelling, Ikeya highlights how the people targeted by such movements made and remade their lives under the shifting circumstances of colonialism, capitalism, and nationalism. The book illuminates a history of belonging across boundaries, a history that has been overshadowed by Eurocentric narratives about the mixing of white colonial masters and native mistresses. InterAsian intimacy was—and remains—foundational to modern regimes of knowledge, power, and desire throughout Asia.
| Author | : Biswamoy Pati |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351262181 |
The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.
| Author | : Deana Heath |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2021-03-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0192646168 |
Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maitenance of state sovereignty. Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a 'regime of exception' in which two different forms of exceptionality were in operation - one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by petty sovereigns in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.
