Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

by Clare Anderson

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From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. Legible Bodies explores the treatment of these native criminals and sheds light on a largely overlooked practice of empire.

British penal administrators created a series of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1859738559

ISBN13:9781859738559

Release Date:May 2004

Publisher:Berg Publishers

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Asia Criminology England Europe History India Minority Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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