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India in the shadows of empire : a legal and political history, 1774-1950
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mukherjee, Mithi, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--India.
- Constitutional history.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explaining the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence, this book follows two strands: firstly, the role of imperial judicial practices and institutions in the making of both the British Empire and the anti-colonial movement under the Congress, with the lawyer as political leader. Secondly, it shows that Gandhi's non-violent resistance movement was anchored not in western discourses of political and legislative freedom but rather in Indic traditions of renunciative freedom.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908811-X
- 0-19-908015-1
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