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

James Jaffe

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Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India

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James Jaffe, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2015
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781316104392
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316104392

Subjects:: Area Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, South Asian History, Law, Asian Studies, History
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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The Indian village council, 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.

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Half title page
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society - Series page
pp ii-ii

Title page - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Contents
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-xi

Glossary
pp xii-xii

Additional material
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-18

Part I - Discoveries and adaptations
pp 19-206

1 - The rise and fall of the panchayat in the Bombay Presidency
pp 21-47

2 - Bringing justice to every man’s door
pp 48-76

3 - Appeals and the language of petitioning
pp 77-101

4 - The construction of panchayat legality
pp 102-127

5 - The panchayat and trial by jury, I
pp 128-154

6 - The panchayat and trial by jury, II
pp 155-182

7 - The panchayat debate in the Bengal Presidency, 1814–1830
pp 183-206

Part II - Lineages and legacies
pp 207-291

8 - The panchayat from village republic to municipality
pp 209-233

9 - The panchayat and the building of civil society
pp 234-257

10 - The panchayat legacy and the independence movement
pp 258-286

Conclusion
pp 287-291

Glossary
pp 292-294

Manuscript Sources
pp 295-296

Bibliography
pp 297-307

Index
pp 308-314

Books in the Series - Series page
pp 315-315

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