Trials of Sovereignty

Trials of Sovereignty

Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922

McClure, Alastair

Cambridge University Press

11/2024

386

Dura

9781009553544

15 a 20 dias

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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.