Singha_Radhika
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A Despotism of Law
Douban
Radhika Singha publishing house: OUP India 2000 - 9
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Jan. 22, 2020
"the construction of the colonial legal subject on an ideological terrain in which the state negotiated with existing normative codes to reorder them to law and civil authority, but also to establish circuits of communication with the ruled"; sovereign rights over the individual, state monopoly of rights to take lives; tension w/ cultural moorings
Singha_Radhika
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A Despotism of Law
Douban
Radhika Singha publishing house: Oxford University Press 1998 - 6
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Feb. 27, 2014
The tension and negotiation between the attempted indivisible sovereignty of the Company State to establish direct relations with the individual subjects on one hand and the "existing normative codes" and "circuits of communication" with the ruled on the other. True Bayly bacchah.
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