Subjects, Citizens and Law

Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. Her work focuses on social, environmental and legal history in Indian modern and British Imperial history. Among her publications are Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity (2014); Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature (2008); Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia (with K. Sivaramakrishnan, 2006); and Bonds Lost: Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India, c. 1900–1970 (1997). Sanjukta Das Gupta is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indian History at the Department of Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Earlier she taught at the University of Calcutta, India. She is the author of Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 1820–1932 (2011) and has co-edited Narratives of the Excluded: Caste Issues in Colonial India (2008) and Narratives from the Margins: Aspects of Adivasi History in India (2012).

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Becoming and being a subject: an introduction

GUNNEL CEDERLÖF

1 The making of subjects on British India’s North-Eastern Frontier

GUNNEL CEDERLÖF

2 The temperament of empire: law and conquest in late 19th-century India

JON WILSON

3 Contagious contestations: sex work, medicine and law in colonial and postcolonial Sonagachhi

SIMANTI DASGUPTA

4 Laws and colonial subjects: the subject–citizen riddle and the making of section 295 (A)

NISHANT KUMAR

5 A homeland for ‘tribal’ subjects: revisiting British colonial experimentations in the Kolhan Government Estate

SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA

6 Conflict and governance: participation and strategic veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India

AMIT PRAKASH

7 Refugees in India: a study into (un)equal status, treatment and prospects

ANNE-SOPHIE BENTZ

8 Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in mid-Gangetic India, 1770s–1910s

NITIN SINHA

Subjects, citizens and law: a postscript

TANIKA SARKAR

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