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Trials of Sovereignty

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alastair McClureSeries:Studies in Legal HistoryPublish date:11/28/2024Pages:386
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009553544ISBN-10:1009553542UPC:9781009553544Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SCVXPKJ7X1
Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, and judicial sentencing practices, Alastair McClure argues that discretion represented a vital facet of colonial rule. In a bloody penal order, officials and judges consistently offered reduced sentences and pardons for select subjects, encouraging others to approach state institutions and confer the colonial state with greater legitimacy. Mercy was always a contested expression of sovereign power that risked exposing colonial weakness. This vulnerability was gradually recognized by colonial subjects who deployed a range of legal and political strategies to interrogate state power and question the lofty promises of British colonial justice. By the early twentieth century, the decision to break the law and reject imperial overtures of mercy had developed into a crucial expression of anticolonial politics.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009553544ISBN-10:1009553542UPC:9781009553544Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SCVXPKJ7X1
McClure, Alastair: - 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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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