Tod's Rajast'han and the boundaries of imperial rule in nineteenth-century India
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James Tod's Rajast'han, a story interpreted as a call for Indian resistance against the British, was associated with the development of the nationalist movement. The author outlines a variety of distinctions between indigenous political and social types of people, including feudal Rajputs, predatory Marathas, and despotic Mughals. Tod views nationalism as a means to self-realization, and he links the specific national groups to various types of Indian people.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1996
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"A corporation of superior prostitutes": Anglo-Indian legal conceptions of temple dancing girls, 1800-1914
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The Anglo-Indian legal system in the 19th and early 20th centuries gradually criminalized the practices of the temple dancing girls in India. Girls were dedicated at an early age to temple deities. They were trained to sing and dance and acted as concubines. The English did not criminalize the practice immediately because they did not want to interfere with religious practices, but they believed the custom amounted to prostitution.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1998
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Macaulay and the Indian penal code of 1862: the myth of the inherent superiority and modernity of the English legal system compared to India's legal system in the nineteenth century
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The imposition by the British of an Indian penal code in 1862 assumed a superiority of British law that was not necessarily true. The standards of uniformity and certainty in a field of diverse necessities, set by Thomas Macaulay for the Indian legal code, were not met in 19th-century British law. The Indian penal code instituted by the British reflected the needs in the British criminal justice system more than the Indian system.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1998
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