SAGE Law: Social Legislation of the East India Company (ePub)
Public Justice versus Public Instruction
(Sprache: Englisch)
A hitherto unattempted survey of social legislation by the East India Company, this book identifies the principles of Public Justice and Public Instruction as the inspiration for legislative decisions, some of which resonate in post-colonial India. It...
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A hitherto unattempted survey of social legislation by the East India Company, this book identifies the principles of Public Justice and Public Instruction as the inspiration for legislative decisions, some of which resonate in post-colonial India. It dwells particularly on legislation which manipulated Muslim criminal law in order to protect, and in some instances, create, the rights of women, slaves, bonded labourers and victims of crime. It also examines the Company's cautious venture into the realm of civil law affecting the ideals of religious toleration, remarriage of Hindu widows as well as inheritance and property law. Finally, it considers excise as a regulatory instrument in the Company's administration of Pilgrim Taxes and Abkarry revenue from liquor and opium.
The book traces the journey of the small group of merchants, who initially formed the East India Company, and while enviously guarding their sometimes piratical commercial interests, actually became a burgeoning nation state. It shows how...
Autoren-Porträt von Nancy Gardner Cassels
Nancy Gardner Cassels formerly taught in the Department of History, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. She has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Waterloo and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto.She has been the recipient of a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship from 1959 to 1961, a Canada Council Research Grant in 1968, a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Senior Fellowship from 1988 to 1989 and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grants from 1980 to 1981 and from 1987 to 1988.
She is also the author of Religion and Pilgrim Tax under the Company Raj, published in 1987.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nancy Gardner Cassels
- 2010, 460 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Sage Publications
- ISBN-10: 935150946X
- ISBN-13: 9789351509462
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2010
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