Alastair McClure

Trials of Sovereignty

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Produktbeschreibung

Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Key chapters examine royal amnesty, codification, capital punishment, and sedition. It will benefit students and scholars interested in legal history, South Asian studies, criminology, and imperial history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781009553544
• ISBN-10: 1009553542
• Artikelnr.: 70728033

Autorenporträt

Alastair McClure is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. His research has appeared in History Workshop Journal, Law and History Review, and Modern Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Forgetting War and Punishing Crime
2. The Peace: The Queen's Proclamation and the Politics of Forgiveness
3. The Code: Judges, Juries and Punishing Difference
4. Discretion, the Death Penalty, and the Criminal Trial
5. Pardons and Scaffolds
6. Tilak's Radical Innocence: Mercy, Sedition, and the State Trial
7. Gandhi's Guilt and the Return of War
Conclusion
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index.