Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India
This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better understand the changing terms, tactics, and textures of disciplinary authority, social control, and their several subversions in South Asia—from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Here, focusin...
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doaj-68ed6e4366f54f6d91fcb25f801603da2020-11-25T01:20:26ZspaEl Colegio de México, A.C.Estudios de Asia y África0185-01642448-654X2014-09-014936016332078Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial IndiaSaurabh Dube0Anupama Rao1El Colegio de México/Centro de Estudios de Asia y ÁfricaBarnard College Columbia UniversityThis essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better understand the changing terms, tactics, and textures of disciplinary authority, social control, and their several subversions in South Asia—from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Here, focusing on the pre-colonial and colonial periods, we seize upon crime as a point of entry not only to unravel the dynamic between states and subjects but to understand as well the ways in which intimate social lives have been shaped by these encounters. We argue that crime is at once a category produced by legal regimes and governmental registers as well as a practice intimating the intersections of social experience and state power. At stake, then, are multiple articulations between authoritative categories, formations of state authority, and structures of everyday life. These articulations themselves suggest that far from constituting a settled fact, questions of crime are better approached as problems of knowledge and of knowing.http://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/2078CrimenhistorialeycolonialismoSur de Asia |
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Saurabh Dube Anupama Rao Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India Estudios de Asia y África Crimen historia ley colonialismo Sur de Asia |
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Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India |
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Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India |
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Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India |
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Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India |
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Criminal Questions: Law and Legalities in Pre-colonial and Colonial India |
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criminal questions: law and legalities in pre-colonial and colonial india |
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El Colegio de México, A.C. |
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Estudios de Asia y África |
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0185-0164 2448-654X |
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2014-09-01 |
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This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better understand the changing terms, tactics, and textures of disciplinary authority, social control, and their several subversions in South Asia—from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Here, focusing on the pre-colonial and colonial periods, we seize upon crime as a point of entry not only to unravel the dynamic between states and subjects but to understand as well the ways in which intimate social lives have been shaped by these encounters. We argue that crime is at once a category produced by legal regimes and governmental registers as well as a practice intimating the intersections of social experience and state power. At stake, then, are multiple articulations between authoritative categories, formations of state authority, and structures of everyday life. These articulations themselves suggest that far from constituting a settled fact, questions of crime are better approached as problems of knowledge and of knowing. |
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Crimen historia ley colonialismo Sur de Asia |
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