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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 July 2017
      03 August 2017
      ISBN:
      9781108289740
      9781108418317
      9781108407014
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289740
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 274 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History
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    In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.

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    'Mark Condos’s book offers a compelling insight into the driving principles underlying the British colonial state in Punjab and, in doing so, indicates some wider truths about the nature of imperial societies more broadly.'

    Catherine Coombs Source: The English Historical Review

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