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• Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology
• Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior
• Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military
• Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination...

During the colonial period in India, English historians portrayed the British conquest and domination of India as the realization of a historic destiny, absorbing the particular history of India into the overarching narrative of the Empire. When Indian scholars educated in the British system began to write their own histories of the period, they had to struggle to reclaim their past and to make the Indian people the subject of their history.

Henry Schwarz explores this struggle through an analysis of Indian cultural histories written between 1870 and the present. Focusing on...

• Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study
• Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia
• Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate...