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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.
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About the Author:
Radhika Singha, Lecturer, Miranda House, Delhi University.
Review:
`Singha convincingly attributes the campaign against thuggeer to the military expansion of the British in Northern and Western India in 1818.'
Internationales Asienforum, Vol.31, November 2000
Internationales Asienforum, Vol.31, November 2000
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0195640497
- ISBN 13 9780195640496
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages372
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