State Violence and Punishment in India

ISBN-13: 9780415626699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str.

Taylor C. Sherman

Opis

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab Disturbances of 1919, and the Limits of State Power in India, 1919-1920  3. Disobedience and Discord: The Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-1925  4. Extra-Judicial Punishments and the Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930-1934  5. Legislating against Communal Violence: The United Provinces Goonda Act, and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-1938  6. The Hunger Strikes of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Prisoners, 1929-1938  7. The Second World War and India’s Coercive Network, 1939-1946  8. Partition and the Transitional State in India, 1947-1948  9. The Police action in Hyderabad and the Making of the Postcolonial State in India, 1947-1956  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Taylor C. Sherman began her career teaching Extra-European history at the University of Cambridge, and is currently an AHRC Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.