Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	The Privy Council
	The Heteroglossia of Colonial Law
	Making Law
	Colonial Law as Narrative
	Law and Literature
	Reading the Archives
	Legal Fictions: The Law as Text
	The Archive
	Periodization
	On Appeal: The Docket
Part I Criminality
	Chapter 1 \'\'Power Able to Overawe Them All\'\': Criminality and the Uses of Fear
		Representing the Defendants
		Imaginative Life and the Biopolitics of Fear
		Capitalizing on Fear
		Affect and Effect
		\'\'Terror and Example\'\'
		\'\'All Benefit to Be Expected from a Public Example\'\'
		The Spectacle of Violence
		Another Eduljee
	Chapter 2 The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens\'s Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor\'s Confessions of a Thug
		Thug Lives
		\'\'And Strike Terror into the English Government\'\'
		Crime and Its Punishment
		\'\'The Terror of Childhood\'\'
		Reforming the Criminal
		The Name of the Father
		Reframing the Thug
Part II Temporality
	Chapter 3 Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste
		Ordering the Courts
		Brahminism and the Law
		The Biopolitics of Bureaucracy
		Litigating Time
		Beyond Memory and History
		The Temporality of the Law
		Establishing Precedents
	Chapter 4 On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins\'s The Moonstone
		Setting the Stage
		Sectarianism and Subjection
		Opposing Temporalities
		Fictional Historicism
		The Law of Time
		The Mystery of History
		\'\'The Influence of Character\'\'
Part III Adoption and Inheritance
	Chapter 5 The Begum\'s Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property
		Family Politics
		Love Beyond Kinship: An Unfamiliar Bequest
		\'\'A Faithful Friend of the Company\'\'
		Privacy and Property
		The Last Word
		Narratives of Adoption
	Chapter 6 Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in the Novels of George Eliot
		By Right of Blood
		The Coming of the Child
		A Family Conjured from Gold
		Adoption as Social Stigma
		\'\'I Am Not My Father\'s Son\'\'
		\'\'Not Quite a Human Mother\'\'
		Adopting the Faith
		Love and the Sacred Inheritance
		Adoption\'s Uncertain Horizons
Afterword
	The Discourse of Justice
	Fiction and Reality: A Case in Point
	The Afterlife of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Afterword
Bibliography
Index