Synopses & Reviews
Confining itself to the peaks of anticolonial struggles and the popular resistance to the state in independent India, this book shows the political prisoners's view of the ruptures and continuities in the forms of repression, the nature of penal sanctions, and the legal political processes and discourses in colonial and independent India,
About the Author
Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Professor of Political Science at Hindu College, and is a Fellow at the Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University.
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Glossary
The Politics of 'Political' Prisonerhood in Colonial and Independent India
Sedition, 'Dangerousness', Penal Policies: Militant Nationalism and the Colonial State
'Crime' of Conscience: Satyagraha and Penal policy in Early 1920s
Political Prisoners, Colonial State and Congress Regimes in the 1920s and 1930s
1940s: The Painful Transition
Political Prisoners and Penal Startegies in Independent India
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