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Book SynopsisFocuses on British colonialism in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century to demonstrate how questions of law and emergency shaped colonial rule, which in turn affected the place of colonialism in modern law, depicting the colonies not as passive recipients but as agents in the delineation of Western ideas and practices.
Trade Review. . . a work of commendable scholarship for serious researchers looking at law and the complex ways in which it is imbricated in the ideology and practices of rule." -
Social & Legal Studies"An inventive work of legal theory rooted in a series of legal historical case studies from the later British empire. . . It brims with analytical daring and insight." -
Law, Culture and the Humanities"A thought-provoking series of essays on the complex relation between emergency and the rule of law and on the mutual influence of law in Britain and law in empire." -
Law and History Review"Especially useful for scholars concerned with locating law and empire as aspects of liberal modernity, where the rule of law and the rule of power maintain what we have to recognize, finally, as a strange and uncomfortable intimacy." -
Victorian Studies
