Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia

by Clare Anderson

Book Overview

From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. Legible Bodies explores the treatment of these native criminals and sheds light on a largely overlooked practice of empire.

British penal administrators created a series of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859738559
• ISBN13: 9781859738559
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.8"