Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Key chapters examine royal amnesty, codification, capital punishment, and sedition. It will benefit students and scholars interested in legal history, South Asian studies, criminology, and imperial history.
Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Key chapters examine royal amnesty, codification, capital punishment, and sedition. It will benefit students and scholars interested in legal history, South Asian studies, criminology, and imperial history.