Umfang:
ca. 184 S.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781137306999
Serie:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Inhalt:
In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Law and disorder; State and society; Subordinate officials; Living with leviathan; 1 Making Misconduct; Constructing an economy of discipline; The arithmetic of punishment; Clerical staff; Myo-oks or miniature monarchs; European subordinate officials; Misconduct in delta; 2 The Career of Inspector Pakiri; State power and subordinate officials; '… of all the queer police of this queer country …'; Inspector Pakiri; Players in a theatre state; 3 Whiter than White; Anti-corruption and British authority; Deputy commissioners as bureaucratic despots
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The plot within the plot'Native' quarrels and white rule; 4 The Male State; Gendered subjects, gendered state; Women in Burma (and their henpecked husbands); Compromising situations; Misconduct and gendered violence; The fashioning of the male state; Conclusion; Corruption and the making of the modern state; Notes; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137306999
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780230358270
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Law, Disorder and the Colonial State : Corruption in Burma c.1900
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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