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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- anupama rao and steven pierce Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial Exception -- Defining and Defiling the Criminal Body at the Cape of Good Hope: Punishing the Crime of Suicide under Dutch East India Company Rule, circa 1652-1795 -- The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana -- ''Sinful Propensities'': Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval Reform, 1770-1870 -- The Raj's Other Great Game: Policing the Sexual Frontiers of the Indian Army in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India -- Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria -- Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- An Economy of Su√ering: Addressing the Violence of Discipline in Railway Workers' Petitions to the Agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 -- Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria -- Selections from Castaway -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index