The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715–1911)
by
Anindita Mukhopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
This book investigates the deeper area of class antagonism between the privileged and underprivileged classes as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal. It examines the ambiguity in the bhadralok—the educated middle class— response...