Author: William Robert CornishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food habits
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Observations, on the Nature of the Food of the Inhabitants of Southern India
Author: William Robert CornishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food habits
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon
Author: James S. DuncanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000089827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual adjustments to the criminal justice system, weighing it down and distorting it. The tactical use of rule of law is explored within the three bureaucracies: the police, the courts and the prisons. Policing was often “governed at a distance” due to fiscal constraints and economic priorities and the enforcement of law was often delegated to underpaid Ceylonese. Spaces of resistance opened up as Ceylon was largely left to manage its own affairs. Villagers, minor officials, as well as senior British government officials, alternately used or subverted the rule of law to achieve their own goals. In the courts, the imported system lacked political legitimacy and consequently the Ceylonese undermined it by embracing it with false cases and information, in the interests of achieving justice as they saw it. In the prisons, administrators developed numerous biopolitical techniques and medical experiments in order to punish prisoners’ bodies to their absolute lawful limit. This limit was one which prison officials, prisoners, and doctors negotiated continuously over the decades. The book argues that the struggles around rule of law can best be understood not in terms of a dualism of bureaucrats versus the public, but rather as a set of shifting alliances across permeable bureaucratic boundaries. It offers innovative perspectives, comparing the Ceylonese experiences to those of Britain and India, and where appropriate to other European colonies. This book will appeal to those interested in law, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural and political geography.
The Lancet
Author: Colonizing the Body
Author: David ArnoldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science
Author: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Author: Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.p. and pagination.
Bristol Medico-chirurgical Journal
Author: University Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Author: