Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India

by James Jaffe

The Indian village council, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth century, it analyses the legacies of these actions within the structures of later colonial administrations as well as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107087929
• ISBN13: 9781107087927
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"