| ID | 183805 |
| Title Proper | Know Your Rights |
| Other Title Information | the (un)making of the colonial legal subjects in rural North India, circa 1770–1857 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | DU FEI ; Fei, Du |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines the entanglement of administration, education, and law in North India under early British rule. While there exists extensive discussion on each of these three themes, historians have not paid enough attention to the processes in which, by the mid-nineteenth century, the official minds of the East India Company gradually came to imagine its revenue administration in North India at the institutional intersection of state bureaucracy, village schools, and the law courts. I will argue in this article that through this intersection of knowledge/law-making, the Company wished to foster an ‘enlightened’ but simultaneously obedient subjecthood among the Indian rural population. The contested relationship between the state, the local Indian officials, and the villagers in general, however, thwarted this patronizing ambition. |
| `In' analytical Note | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 56, No.1; Jan 2022: p.65 - 95 |
| Journal Source | Modern Asian Studies 2022-02 56, 1 |