Staging criminality and colonial authority: the execution of thug criminals in British India
This essay examines the spectacular and stage-managed mass executions carried out during the East India Company administration’s campaign against thug criminals during the 1830s. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the execution as an occasion for the demonstration of the authority of the state, it ana...
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Manchester University Press
2010
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1985/ |