Book contents
- Trials of Sovereignty
- Studies in Legal History
- Trials of Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Forgetting War and Punishing Crime
- 2 The Peace: The Queen’s Proclamation and the Politics of Forgiveness
- 3 The Code: Judges, Juries, and Punishing Difference
- 4 Discretion, the Death Penalty, and the Criminal Trial
- 5 Pardons and Scaffolds
- 6 Tilak’s Radical Innocence: Mercy, Sedition, and the State Trial
- 7 Gandhi’s Guilt and the Return of War
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Legal History
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2024
- Trials of Sovereignty
- Studies in Legal History
- Trials of Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Forgetting War and Punishing Crime
- 2 The Peace: The Queen’s Proclamation and the Politics of Forgiveness
- 3 The Code: Judges, Juries, and Punishing Difference
- 4 Discretion, the Death Penalty, and the Criminal Trial
- 5 Pardons and Scaffolds
- 6 Tilak’s Radical Innocence: Mercy, Sedition, and the State Trial
- 7 Gandhi’s Guilt and the Return of War
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Legal History
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Trials of SovereigntyMercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857–1922, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024