Suchergebnisse

1. The making of subjects on British India's north-eastern frontier / Gunnel Cederlöf-- 2. The temperment of empire : law and conquest in the late 19th-century India / Jon Wilson -- 3. Contagious contestations : sex work, medicine and law in colonial and postcolonial Sonagachhi / Simanti Dasgupta -- 4. Laws and colonial subjects : the subject-citizen riddle and the making of section 295(A) / Nishant Kumar -- 5. A homeland for 'tribal' subjects : revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan government estate / Sanjukta Das Gupta -- 6. Conflict and governance : participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India / Amit Prakash -- 7. Refugees in India : a study of (un)equal status, treatment and prospects / Anne-Sophie Bentz -- 8. Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s / Nitin Sinha.

The blurred and distorted image of the Moderate Era is partly due to the conscious superiority and almost contempt with which each generation tends to judge its predecessor. To understand the aims, methods, achievements, and limitations of the leaders of the Moderate Era in India, this lecture sets them in the changing political and social context of the times in which their lot was cast

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers