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Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India

Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India

Name: Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107087927
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Author: James Jaffe
ISBN: 9781107087927

By James Jaffe

Cambridge University Press May 2015

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ISBN-13: 9781107087927
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Indian village, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth-century, it analyses the legacies of these actions within the structures of later colonial administrations as well as the early nationalist movement. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the ideologies of panchayat governance evolved during this period and to the transnational exchange and circulation of panchayat ideologies.

Part I. Discoveries and Adaptations:

1. The rise and fall of the panchayat in the Bombay Presidency

2. Bringing justice to every man's door

3. Appeals and the language of petitioning

4. The construction of panchayat legality

5. The panchayat and trial by jury, I: the civil trial

6. The panchayat and trial by jury, II: military and criminal justice

7. The panchayat debate in the Bengal Presidency

Part II. Lineages and Legacies:

8. The panchayat from village republic to municipality

9. The panchayat and the building of civil society

10. The panchayat legacy.