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MSU |
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MSU |
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rda |
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BEVERLEY, Eric Lewis |
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Frontier as Resource |
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Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire |
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Cambridge |
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Cambridge Unioversity Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2013 |
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text |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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Comparative Studies in Society and History |
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Nineteenth-century European colonialism produced a textured and uneven legal terrain rather than homogeneous imperial units. The fragmentation of sovereignty between empires and subordinated states created frontier zones that unsettled the workings of governance. This article views the developing landscape of power in high colonial South Asia from the loosely controlled frontier zone between Hyderabad, a Princely State ruled by sovereign Muslim dynasts titled Nizams, and the Bombay Presidency, part of Britain's Indian Empire, or Raj. I argue that the heterogeneous legal terrain along the border was a useful resource for administrators and subjects. State officials of both Hyderabad and Bombay justified various projects there; subjects of the two states shopped forums in a legal pluralist environment; and populations on either side of the border whose livelihoods and political agendas ran afoul of social pressures or the economic and cultural imperatives of state projects fled there from adversity. I examine cases of alleged cattle rustlers, bandits, and prostitutes and their engagements with police and courts to explore the political challenges and possibilities the frontier offered different groups. Colonial attempts to extend racialized policing practices across the frontier were frequently met by machinations of marginal people trying to avoid imprisonment or extricate themselves from oppressive social structures. Such figures could use the ambiguity of frontier legal authority to their advantage. The picture that emerges is one of a brute and often-arbitrary colonial power offset by alternative malleable sovereignties that resourceful subjects could play against one another. |
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law |
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crime |
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sovereignty |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417513000029 |
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Library of Congress Classification |
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Journal Article |