Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199236183
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 238x163x42 mm
- Weight 866 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
The first volume to be published in Oxford's new edition of the Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume contains The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey,
MoreLong description:
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial legal history from the point of view of Victorian England's most important legal authority. An experienced barrister, journalist, Legal Member of the Governor-General's Council in India, author of the inaugurative and consolidatory History of the Criminal Law of England (1883), and, finally, a justice on the Queen's Bench, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen argues that far from being the victim of a judicially-engineered execution, Nuncomar (a powerful Indian accused of forgery and conspiracy) received a fair trial from Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the newly-formed Supreme Court in Bengal, and from his brethren. In mounting this argument, Stephen explicitly challenges the long-held judgments of Nuncomar, Impey, and Warren Hastings that had been pronounced earlier in the century by Stephen's mentor, the influential historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, and accepted thereafter. This new edition of Stephen's text (the first since the work was published more than a hundred years ago) includes a detailed introduction, table of dates, glossary, and a fully augmented index, as well as extensive explanatory notes. This apparatus offers important contextual information that not only supports scholars who undertake work on this historical period but also allows a wider readership to understand more fully Stephen's complex and provocative text.
MoreTable of Contents:
Note on the Text
Introduction
Table of Dates
Introductory
The Supreme Council and the Supreme Court
Hastings, Francis, Impey and his Colleagues-Nuncomar-Dissensions in the Council
Nuncomar's Accusations against Hastings
Accusations brought against Nuncomar by Warren Hastings and by Mohun Persaud
On the Evidence in the Trial of Nuncomar
From the Conviction of Nuncomar to his Execution
From the Execution of Nuncomar to the Impeachment of Impey
The Impeachment of Impey
Nuncomar's Petition
Of the Quarrel Between the Governor-General in Council and the Supreme Court
The Patna Cause
The Supreme Court and the Europeans in Calcutta.- Touchet's Petition
The Cossijurah Cause
The Sudder Diwani Adalat
The Lucknow Affidavits
Barwell's Letters
JFS Index
Editor's Index
Glossary
