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Author Heath, Deana, author.

Title Colonial terror : torture and state violence in colonial India / Deana Heath
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
Summary This title explores the legal role of torture and other violence as it was used in colonial ruling. It rigorously attempts to theorize the nature of this violence, including its materiality and its effects on the bodies of the colonized, and those who perpetrated it. This book provides a full examination of the history of torture in colonial India
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 10, 2021)
Subject Torture -- India -- History
Violence -- India -- History
Police -- India -- History -- 19th century
Police -- India -- History -- 20th century
Police
Torture
Violence
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192646156
019264615X
9780191915031
0191915033