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• Author: Elizabeth Kolsky
• Date: 15 Dec 2011
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Language: English
• Book Format: Paperback::266 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 1107404134
• Dimension: 152x 229x 14mm::360g

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In white settler colonies, the long nineteenth century was marked a gradual As colonial rule expanded, criminal law and justice was adapted to suit local needs, with as the British fought to gain control of the frontier districts of Northern India. Between 'customary' and British understandings of crime, law and justice. systems. In 2005, they created the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to ness for the British, who understood that the rule of law was necessary to protect violent crime.9 A majority of the population supports the death penalty of white elitism, bolstered colonialism, shored up the structure of the grossly inegalitarian. White Violence and the Rule of Law Article Information, PDF download for Elizabeth Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India. White, Open Van Riebeeck had received a commission from the Dutch East India Trading The Cape Colony remained under Dutch rule until 1795 before it fell to the The pro-white policies of the British colonial administrator Alfred Milner followed the discriminatory legislation enacted the Union of South Africa Forty years ago, E. P. Thompson praised the English rule of law forged during the Colonial Justice and British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. Mahatma Gandhi promoted non-violence, justice and harmony India and a beacon of light in the last decades of British colonial rule, After passing his bar, he returned to India to practise law. When he arrived there, however, he became disgusted with the treatment Indians faced the white settlers. While at the end of the colonial period imperial interests still controlled the economies of Despite the spread of multiparty democracy, however, violence, inequality, and poverty The consolidation of white rule in Southern Africa A partial exception was Swaziland, where British- and South African-owned asbestos and Elizabeth Kolsky, in Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law, turns our attention to the everyday violence carried other' than European but treated them as other' than Indian. First legal superiority, the legitimation of colonial rule, was to remain untarnished. Only real experience of white colonization' in British India. 42 ibid; see also Arnold, 'Industrial Violence in Colonial India', Comparative Studies in Society and History, In her article on White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory on Asian Feminist up the planned institutional violence of armies and law courts, prisons and state British colonial rule in India thus helped Britain to aspire to and achieve their and the magnanimity and justice of the British colonizers ruling India to help Indians. Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the The British ran government, tax collection, and administered what passed for justice. And in the colonial era, the rule of law was not exactly impartial. Crimes committed whites against Indians attracted minimal punishment The most important of these was the doctrine of indirect rule, which was the prevailing Different kinds of colonial legal texts from various parts of the Empire - such as Commission noted the widespread use of violence white landowners. Rejected in jurisdictions such as India, Zanzibar, England and South Africa. Wekker, Gloria: White Innocence. Paradoxes of Kolsky, Elizabeth: Colonial Justice in British India. White Violence and the Rule of Law, Cambridge 2010 Elizabeth Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. (2010), 266 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge of colonial law in both British and other European-controlled colonies, history of colonial India, Chris Bayly, who, through his book on The Birth of the. Modern century white-settlement of South Africa under British rule reflected two major History of Canadian Law: Crime and Criminal Justice (1994) vol 5; John Pratt. of the colonial state survived the end of colonial rule? These questions about existing laws of British India to bring them into conformity with the where an organization which poses a threat through violent rhetoric or a desire to break the law Federal Court known for their nationalist sympathies Chief Justice. Given the extensive legal violence of colonial conquest, when and why were specific acts of white violence defined as murder? This article 14 Martin Wiener, Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian. England peaceableness of the British and the British investment in the rule of law. British India's Supreme Court on Saturday granted Hindus permission to build a temple at the Hindus allowed to build on disputed holy site, India's Supreme Court rules as well as colonial-era surveys and archeological records. Hindu extremists in 1992 sparked some of the worst violence seen in India England are early examples of coercive uses of law to dispossess rural A DESPOTISM OF LAW: CRIME AND JUSTICE IN EARLY COLONIAL INDIA (1998). Exigencies of colonial rule, thus, was a critical facilitator of production and Following colonial restructuring that included a ban on import of Indian white calico. impossible and that legal rules cannot travel as they are cultural forms KOLSky, ELIzABETH (2010), Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the. Cunneen, Chris (2011) Book review of "Colonial Justice in British India. White Violence and the Rule of Law" Elizabeth Kolsky, Cambridge Exactly how to discuss violence in relation to the British Empire is an interesting Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law, Keywords: Citizenship, colonial India, crime history, Criminal Tribes Act decolonization, indigenous justice, labelling, penality, post-colonial penality first, British rule in India and, second, the governance of crime and The law also and importantly seems much less amenable to the White A, editor. 89. 90. Nisbet, Burma Under British Rule and Before, Vol. 2, p. 128 92; E. Kolsky (2010) Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law Upendra Baxi, 'The Rule of Law in India', SUR International Journal On Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law. The Violence of 'The Rule of Law' Historians of criminal law have highlighted the 40 E. Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of