Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

by Clare Anderson (Author)

Synopsis

From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. This title explores the treatment of these native criminals.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 01 May 2004

ISBN 10: 1859738605
ISBN 13: 9781859738603