RT Article
T1 Postcolonial penality: liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 21
IS 2
SP 186
OP 208
A1 Brown, Mark 1965-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/156039613X
AB This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one example of colonial penal power, known as the criminal tribes policy, under which more than three million Indian subjects of British rule were restricted in their movements, subject to a host of administrative rules and sometimes severe punishments, sequestered in settlements and limited in access to legal redress. It illustrates how at the birth of the postcolonial Indian state, encompassing visions of a liberal, unfettered and free life guaranteed in a new Constitution and charter of Fundamental Rights, freedom for some was to prove as elusive as citizens as it had been as subjects.
K1 Citizenship
K1 Colonial India
K1 Crime history
K1 Criminal Tribes Act 1924
K1 Critical criminology,
K1 Decolonization
K1 Indigenous justice
K1 Labelling
K1 Penality
K1 Post-colonial penality
DO 10.1177/1362480615625762