Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Hardcover

Jaffe, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107087929 ISBN 13: 9781107087927

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Ironies of Colonial Governance analyses the ideas and practices which characterised the governing of colonial India. It focuses on the history of the customary Indian village council and traces how the ideal of the village council became an essential aspect of both colonial governance and nationalist ideology.

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Reseña del editor:

The Indian village council, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth century, it analyses the legacies of these actions within the structures of later colonial administrations as well as the early nationalist movement. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the ideologies of panchayat governance evolved during this period and to the transnational exchange and circulation of panchayat ideologies.

Biografía del autor:

James Jaffe is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and a fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. His current work on transnational legal history has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US-UK Fulbright Commission and the Ford Foundation.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107087929
• ISBN 13: 9781107087927
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336