Social legislation of the East India Company [electronic resource] : public justice versus public instruction / Nancy Gardner Cassels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassels, Nancy Gardner, 1936-

Series:

Sage Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company.

Social legislation--India--History--18th century.

Social legislation.

Social legislation--India--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A hitherto unattempted survey of social legislation by the East India Company, this book identifies the principles of Public Justice and Public Instruction as the inspiration for legislative decisions, some of which resonate in post-colonial India. It dwells particularly on legislation which manipulated Muslim criminal law in order to protect, and in some instances, create, the rights of women, slaves, bonded labourers and victims of crime. It also examines the Company's cautious venture into the realm of civil law affecting the ideals of religious toleration, remarriage of Hindu widows as wel

Contents:

Law, order and power : thagi, dacoity and sorcery

Law as a weapon against child sacrifice, sati, female infanticide and meriah sacrifice

The legal rights of coolies, slaves and emigrant labourers

Civil law and the policy of religious toleration

Abkarry and pilgrim taxes : excise as a regulating instrument

Public instruction begets Indian agency, free press, and trial by jury

Conclusion : social legislation in the arena of public instruction versus public justice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-98468-3

9786612984686

81-321-0666-0

OCLC:

701052796