Behind the mask: the cultural definition of the legal subject in colonial Bengal: 1715-1911 (Record no. 294952)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780195680836
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 301.44
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mukhopadhyay, Anindita
9 (RLIN) 21476
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Behind the mask: the cultural definition of the legal subject in colonial Bengal: 1715-1911
Statement of responsibility, etc. Mukhopadhyay, Anindita
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 301 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount INR 595.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Behind the Mask investigates the deeper area of class antagonism between the privileged and underprivileged classes as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal. It explores the ambiguity in the Bhadralok - the educated middle class - response to courts and jails. The author argues that 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' As the 'rule of law' of the British government slid unobtrusively into the public domain, the criminal courts and jails turned into public theatres of infamy - spaces that the thically bound bhadralok dreaded occupying. The author documents how the colonial legal and penal institutions streamlined the identities of some sections of the lower castes into 'criminal classes'. She also examines the nature of colonial bureaucracy and highlights the social silence on gender and women's criminality.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Social classes - India - Bengal - History - 18th century
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Law - India - Colonies - History - 18th century Bengal (India)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Bengal (India) - Denotified tribes - History - 18th century
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   04/05/2009   301.44 M8B3 161329 04/09/2009 04/09/2009 Book

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