Radhika Singha focuses on the criminal justice system in colonial India. She describes how the British used law as a tool of despotism, imposing strict control over Indian society through legal means.

This was pre-colonial India—a civilization not just thriving but dazzling. But the story took a darker turn when the British arrived, wielding not swords alone but policies and manipulation to ...

The provision dealing with sedition — actions aimed at encourage people to be or act against a government— was imposed by the British in 1860 to repress India’s freedom fighters.

In the comprehensive historiographical landscape of British India, the material and visual dimensions often played a secondary role to political, economic, and cultural narratives. Christopher ...

With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

The second exception was Gujranwala, a Punjabi locality where British pilots dropped bombs on colonial subjects from planes without warning. Read More: India’s Income Inequality Is Now Worse ...

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India’s government unveiled new punishments for mob lynchings and crimes against women on Friday in a proposal for the country’s biggest criminal justice overhaul since the British colonial era.

India to overhaul colonial-era criminal laws, repeal penal code. ... and the Indian Evidence Act, many implemented by the British before the country’s independence in 1947. ...

How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years. Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and ...