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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rule of law and emergency in colonial India
    sub title: judicial politics in the early nineteenth century
  name:
    name part: Inagaki, Haruki
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 182 pages : map ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyzes how Indians of various descriptions, peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs and princes, used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government's indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company's attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company's charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.
  table of contents: 1. Law and Emergency: Two Logics of Colonial Governance -- 2. Reform Public and the King's Court in Bombay City -- 3. Summonses, Writs and Revenue Defaulters in the Mofussil -- 4. Indirect Rule Threatened by Raiders, Princes and the King's Court -- 5. Habeas Corpus in Times of Emergency: The Bombay Dispute -- 6. Bengal, Madras and Imperial Debate on Despotism -- 7. Epilogue and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Haruki Inagaki.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-174) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: East India Company.
  subject:
    topic: Courts
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Justice, Administration of
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Rule of law
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: 954.04
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
  identifier: 9783030736620
  identifier: 3030736628
  identifier: 9783030736637 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210803
    record change date: 20211217085425.0
    record identifier: in00004391557