India in the Shadows of Empire - A Legal and Political History (1774-1950)

This book explores the concepts of justice as equity and of the imperial monarch as the arbiter of justice and their implications for the colonial state, anti-colonial politics, and the construction of the postcolonial Indian polity.

About the author

Mithi Mukherjee is Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder. She teaches modern South Asian history and the history of law and human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Mithi Mukherjee
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.07.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780198062509
• ISBN: 978-0-19-806250-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous