Sovereign Anxiety: Public Order and the Politics of Control in India, 1915–1955

Javed Iqbal Wani

doi:10.1017/9781009337946

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Public Order and the Politics of Control in India, 1915–1955

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Javed Iqbal Wani, Ambedkar University Delhi

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009337946
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009337946

Subjects:: Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Politics and International Relations

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This book studies issues of public order in late colonial and earlier postcolonial India. It identifies various governmental practices, such as curfews, bans and police action, that thrive on extraordinary legislation to maintain public order. The colonial regime often deployed extraordinary legislation to curtail the liberties of individuals and groups by citing potential harm to public order. Through public order, a spectacle of sovereign power and politics of contestation between the citizens and law enforcement emerges. The book will contribute to existing discussions about sovereignty and legitimacy of state power by providing a representative sample of concrete instances such as inter and intra-community riots, labour riots, labour strikes and nationalist agitation. It will also enable a comparative approach and illustrates processes of the evolution of state formation and citizenship in South Asia.

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Public Order and the Politics of Control in India, 1915–1955

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-40

1 - Invoking Exception and Defining Enemies: Extraordinary Legislation and the Colonial War on Terror in Early-Twentieth-Century India
pp 41-86

2 - Controlling ‘Mobs’ and Maintaining Public Order in the United Provinces, 1930–1940
pp 87-140

3 - Bureaucratic Encounters and the Question of Justice in India: A Kafkaesque Tale of Official Discretion, Errors and Oversights
pp 141-178

4 - Lineages of a Postcolonial State: The Disposition of State-Sponsored Vigilantism in the United Provinces, 1948
pp 179-228

5 - Mukhiyas and Chowkidars: Understanding the ‘New’ Sense of Public Order in the United Provinces, 1947–1955
pp 229-256

Conclusion
pp 257-264

Bibliography
pp 265-288

Index
pp 289-306

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