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A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India (Oxford India Paperbacks)
A Despotism of Law Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India - Oxford India Paperbacks Author:Radhika Singha This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.