Law, disorder and the colonial state: corruption in Burma c.1900 / Jonathan Saha, Lecturer in Modern History,University of Bristol
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: x,166 p.; 22 cmISBN: 9780230358270Subject(s): Colonial administrators -- Burma -- History | Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- History | Misconduct in office -- Burma -- History | Corruption -- Burma -- History | British -- Burma -- History | Burma -- History | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- AdministrationDDC classification: 959.104Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references ( pages 133-161).
1 Making Misconduct Constructing an economy of discipline
The arithmetic of punishment
Clerical staff
Myo-oks or miniature monarchs European subordinate officials
Misconduct in delta
2 The Career of Inspector Pakiri
State power and subordinate officials
of all the queer police of this queer country Inspector Pakiri
Players in a theatre state
3 Whiter than White
Anti-corruption and British authority Deputy commissioners as bureaucratic despots
The plot within the plot
’Native’ quarrels and white rule
4 The Male State
Gendered subjects, gendered state
Women in Burma (and their henpecked husbands)
Compromising situations Misconduct and gendered violence
The fashioning of the male state
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