Mithi Mukherji (Associate Professor, Department of History, Univers

India in the Shadows of Empire

A Legal and Political History (1774-1950)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity. It explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP India
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 143mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780198079439
• ISBN-10: 0198079435
• Artikelnr.: 48934607

Autorenporträt

Mithi Mukherjee is Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1: The Colonial and the Imperial: India and Britain in the
Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings;
* 2: Conflict of Sovereignty: The Judiciary, the Executive, and the
Emergence of the Indian Legislative Council as a Court of Law;
* 3: Into the Labyrinth: The Birth of Justice as a Discourse of
Governance;
* 4: 'Vakil Raj': The Indian National Congress and the Birth of the
Lawyer as Political Representative;
* 5: From Imperial Justice to Transcendental Freedom: The Samnyasin as
Leader in the Movement for National Independence;
* 6: An Imperial Constitution? Justice as Equity and the Making of the
Indian Constitution;
* 7: India after Independence: A Tale of Conflicting Legacies;
* Bibliography
* Index