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Colonial terror : torture and state violence in colonial India / Deana Heath.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191915031 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 364.6750954 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8599
Online resources: This title explores the legal role of torture and other violence as it was used in colonial ruling. It rigorously attempts to theorize the nature of this violence, including its materiality and its effects on the bodies of the colonized, and those who perpetrated it. This book provides a full examination of the history of torture in colonial India.
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This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title explores the legal role of torture and other violence as it was used in colonial ruling. It rigorously attempts to theorize the nature of this violence, including its materiality and its effects on the bodies of the colonized, and those who perpetrated it. This book provides a full examination of the history of torture in colonial India.

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