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| 020 | _a9780415559706 (hardback : alk. paper) | ||
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_aSherman, Taylor C. _919832 |
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_aState violence and punishment in India / _cTaylor C. Sherman |
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_aLondon; _aNew York: _bRoutledge, _c2010. |
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_axi, 246 p.; _c25 cm. |
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_a(Royal Asiatic Society books). _919833 |
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| 500 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : 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. | |
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_aPolitical Violence _zIndia _xHistory _919834 |
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_aViolence _zIndia _xHistory _919835 |
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_aIndia _xPolitics and Government _9373 |
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