State Violence and Punishment in India

Sherman, Taylor C.

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“…Yet, the smaller scale of this colonial regime allows for a micro-analysis not always possible for larger Empires, although several studies showing how "everyday acts of physical violence were an intrinsic aspect of colonial rule" (Saha, 2011;cf. Kolsky, 2010;Sherman, 2010) in British India have emerged.…”

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Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

Muschalek¹

2017

Rethinking the Colonial State

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Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

Muschalek¹

2017

Rethinking the Colonial State

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“…The government in turn attempted to present itself as fair-minded and just. 50 Judges and magistrates were at the frontline of this contest, having to perpetuate the image of their detached objectivity whilst enforcing repressive legislation. Collis wrote about finding himself in this situation when he had to try the nationalist Mayor of Calcutta, Sen Gupta, for an allegedly seditious speech he gave whilst visiting Rangoon.…”

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Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma

Saha

2017

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When British judges in colonial South Asia attempted to perform their duties with detached objectivity they were also performatively enacting a particular construction of imperial white masculinity. This was an ambivalent embodied enactment. When the figure of the objective judge was confronted by critics as white and male, its claims to be objective were under threat. As a result of this ambivalence, it was an imperial white masculinity that could not name itself. Instead, it was a white masculinity constructed through a differentiation that was made with feminised, non-white bodies that were deemed partial.

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“…The book places everyday forms of violence and punishment at the centre of colonial state-formation in the twentieth century, as well as highlighting the importance of physical violence in framing nationalist opposition to colonial rule. 31 Complimenting Kolsky's chapter covering early Company rule, Sherman takes her argument into the relatively under researched timeframe of post-colonial India by exploring the police action in Hyderabad between 1947 and 1956 in her final chapter. In this chapter she argues that like the colonial state, the newly independent state was quickly overwhelmed by unrest and responded with an ad hoc application of violence and punishment: particularly a continued reliance of mass detention.…”

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“…Sherman's interest in these 'macroevents' concerns not only the extraordinary uses of violence, but also in its mundane forms. 38 In other words, it is a work also concerned with everyday violence because of the historical perspective with which she explores the events. In each chapter she examines how the event was dealt with on the level of everyday life: tracing the ad hoc, improvised uses of violence and their consequences.…”

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Histories of Everyday Violence In British India

Saha

2011

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Historians of British India and colonial rule more generally have inevitably had to approach the difficult subject of colonial violence. Often, however, historians have explored colonial violence by focusing on exceptional and spectacular moments. Recently two books have been published that shift the terms of the historiography by examining colonial violence as an aspect of everyday life in British India: Taylor Sherman’s State Violence and Punishment in India and Elizabeth Kolsky’s Colonial Justice in British India. This article examines the limitations of the established literature’s characterisation of colonial violence, before comparing the work of Kolsky and Sherman. Both of their studies demonstrate that physical violence was an intrinsic and everyday aspect of the colonial encounter in India, and they lay the groundwork for further studies of everyday colonial violence.

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State Violence and Punishment in India

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Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa

Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma

Histories of Everyday Violence In British India

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