Search Results for: Police Power And Colonial Rule Madras 1859 1947

Focusing on developments in the Madras presidency between the Rebellion of 1857-58 and independence 90 years later, this book studies the creation of a British

Police Power and Colonial Rule analyses the increasing deployment and growing authority of the police in the Madras Presidency of British India, demonstrating t

From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colon

While the study of “indigenous intermediaries” is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots e

Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently have birth control histories i