State violence and punishment in India
By: Taylor C. Sherman.
Series: Royal Asiatic Society books -- 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415559706; 9780203865316
Subjects: Political violence -- India -- History -- 20th century; Violence -- India -- History -- 20th century; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and the limits of state power in India, 1919-1920; title: Disobedience and discord : the non-cooperation movement, 1920-1925; title: Extra-judicial punishments and the civil disobedience movement, 1930-1934; title: Legislating against communal violence : the United Provinces Goonda Act and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-1938; title: The hunger strikes of the Lahore conspiracy case prisoners, 1929-1938; title: The Second World War and India's coercive network, 1939-1946; title: Partition and the transitional state in India, 1947-1948; title: The police action in Hyderabad and the making of the postcolonial state in India, 1947-1956.