Taylor C Sherman

State Violence and Punishment in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415626699
• ISBN-10: 0415626692
• Artikelnr.: 35112089

Autorenporträt

Taylor C. Sherman began her career teaching Extra-European history at the University of Cambridge, and is currently an AHRC Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Jallianwala Bagh
the Punjab Disturbances of 1919
and the Limits of State Power in India
1919-1920 3. Disobedience and Discord: The Non-Cooperation Movement
1920-1925 4. Extra-Judicial Punishments and the Civil Disobedience Movement
1930-1934 5. Legislating against Communal Violence: The United Provinces Goonda Act
and the Bombay Whipping Act
1929-1938 6. The Hunger Strikes of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Prisoners
1929-1938 7. The Second World War and India's Coercive Network
1939-1946 8. Partition and the Transitional State in India
1947-1948 9. The Police action in Hyderabad and the Making of the Postcolonial State in India
1947-1956 10. Conclusion