India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History (1774–1950)
Mithi Mukherjee
Abstract
This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative along two major trajectories. On the one hand, it focuses on the role of imperial judicial institutions and practices in the making of both the British Empire and the anti-colonial movement under the Congress, with the lawyer as political leader. On the other hand, it offers a novel interpretation of Gandhi's non-violent resistance movement as being different from the Congress. It shows that the Gandh ... More
Keywords: postcolonial Indian polity, historical narratives, British Empire, India, independence, anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, non-violent resistance
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198062509 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198062509.001.0001 |
