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Colonial Terror

- Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Af: Prof Deana Heath Engelsk Hardback

Colonial Terror

- Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
Af: Prof Deana Heath Engelsk Hardback
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Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maitenance of state sovereignty.Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a ''regime of exception'' in which two different forms of exceptionality were in operation - one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by petty sovereigns in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.
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Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bodies to the law-preserving violence of colonial rule and some of the ways in which extraordinary violence was embedded in the ordinary operation of colonial states. Although enacted largely by Indians on Indian bodies, particularly by subaltern members of the police, the book argues that torture was facilitated, systematized, and ultimately sanctioned by first the East India Company and then the Raj because it benefitted the colonial regime, since rendering the police a source of terror played a key role in the construction and maitenance of state sovereignty.Drawing upon the work of both Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, Colonial Terror contends, furthermore, that it is only possible to understand the terrorizing nature of the colonial police in India by viewing colonial India as a ''regime of exception'' in which two different forms of exceptionality were in operation - one wrought through the exclusion of particular groups or segments of the Indian population from the law and the other by petty sovereigns in their enactment of illegal violence in the operation of the law. It was in such fertile ground, in which colonial subjects were both included within the domain of colonial law while also being abandoned by it, that torture was able to flourish.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780192893932
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0192893939
Kategori: Kolonialisme og imperialisme
Udg. Dato: 23 mar 2021
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 243mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 23 mar 2021
Forfatter(e): Prof Deana Heath
Forfatter(e) Prof Deana Heath

Kategori Kolonialisme og imperialisme

ISBN-13 9780192893932

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 243mm

Højde 161mm

Udg. Dato 23 mar 2021

Oplagsdato 23 mar 2021

Forlag Oxford University Press

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