Behind the Mask
The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715-1911)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 31 October 2013
- ISBN 9780198089674
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages315 pages
- Size 220x142x17 mm
- Weight 314 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book explores the complex inter-linkages between the formation of middle class identity, colonial legal discourse and class antagonism between late eighteenth and early twentieth century in Bengal.
MoreLong description:
The book explores the complex inter-linkages between colonial legal discourse, class antagonism, and the formation of middle class identity between late eighteenth and early twentieth century in Bengal. It also examines the nature of colonial bureaucracy, bhadralok identitiy formation and criminality in Bengal. The colonial state had deployed its most powerful ideological and operation rationale-the Rule of Law-on the indigenous elite at the turn of the nineteenth century. This work addresses a fundamental discursive discontinuity when the Bengali bhadralok, a variegated, literate and self reflective social group, struggled to forge a new understanding of a thinking legal subject while negotiating with Western intellectual thought. It investigates the ambiguity of the bhadralok response to the courts and the jails. The discourse of superior bhadralok ethics and morals was juxtaposed against the chhotolok-who were devoid of such ethical values. This enabled the bhadralok to claim for themselves the position of the 'aware' legal subject as a class-a 'good' subject obedient to the dictates of the new rule of law, unlike the recalcitrant and ethically ill-equipped chhotolok. It also brings out how the colonial legal and penal institutions streamlined the identities of some sections of the lower castes into 'criminal classes'. The author also tries to highlight the social silence on gender female criminality.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Official Discourse: The Creation of Categories and Spaces
Experiencing the New Order: In Search of an Identity, 1775-1890
The Making of the Mask, 1854-90
The Representation of Otherness
Cultural Affirmation of Non-Criminal Identity; Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
