TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherman,Taylor C.
TI  - State violence and punishment in India
SN  - 9780415559706 (hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 954.035 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Political Violence
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Violence
KW  - Politics and Government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : state violence and punishment in India, 1919-56 -- Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and the limits of state power in India, 1919-20 -- Disobedience and discord : the non-cooperation movement, 1920-25 -- Extra-judicial punishments and the civil disobedience movement, 1930-34 -- Legislating against communal violence : the United Provinces Goonda Act and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-38 -- The hunger strikes of the Lahore Conspiracy Case prisoners, 1929-39 -- The Second World War and India's coercive network, 1939-46 -- Partition and the transitional state in India, 1947-48 -- The police action in Hyderabad and the making of the postcolonial state in India, 1947-56 -- Conclusion : rethinking colonial punishment, reassessing postcolonial India
ER  -