The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India

The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India
Author: Haruki Inagaki
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030736636

This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians’ forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King’s Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions—peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes—used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government’s indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company’s attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company’s charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.

Ethical Empire?

Ethical Empire?
Author: Zak Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009321064

Explores how British and Indian reformers in the Victorian period agitated against the abuses of power undergirding colonial rule.

Parliamentary Papers

Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1846
Genre: Bills, Legislative
ISBN: