Staging criminality and colonial authority: the execution of thug criminals in British India

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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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Main Author:	ní Fhlathúin, Máire
Format:	Article
Published:	Manchester University Press 2010
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1985/

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