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A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India
A Despotism of Law Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India Author:Radhika Singha Radhika Singha looks at law-making as a cultural enterprise, one in which the colonial authorities were compelled to draw upon normative codes of rank, status, and gender so as to realign them to a new, more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.