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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Colonial Prose of Counterterrorism -- Terrorism, Security, and the State of Exception -- Genealogies of Terrorism -- Violence and Non-Violence in Colonial India -- Anxiety, Power, and the Making of Colonial Law -- Chapters and Structure -- 1 Ethereal Assassins: Colonial Law and 'Hereditary Crime' in the Nineteenth Century -- 'So Intolerable an Evil' -- 'The Terror of the Neighbouring Coast' |
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'A Race Essentially Criminal' -- 'A Rebel Camp on the Frontier' -- Conclusion -- 2 'The Magical Lore of Bengal': Surveillance, Swadeshi, and Propaganda by Bomb, 1890s to 1913 -- 'Striking Terror to the British Heart' -- 'Political Dacoits' -- 'The Secret of the Bomb' -- 'No Terror for the Law-Abiding Citizen' -- Conclusion -- 3 'The Eye of Government Is on Them': Anti-Colonialism and Emergency during the First World War -- 'A State of War' -- 'The Appeal of Sikhs Was Specially Obnoxious' -- 'It Must Be Regarded at Home as a War Measure' -- 'Criminal Acts of a Few Ill-Balanced Minds' |
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'A Program of Violence and Terrorism' -- Conclusion -- 4 Indefinite Emergency: Revolutionary Politics and 'Terrorism' in Interwar India -- 'A Standing Menace to Tyranny' -- 'Easier to Defend in Parliament' -- 'Neither Terrorists nor Anarchists' -- 'Legalised Brute Force' -- 'The Blood-Stained Memory of the Easter Revolution' -- 'The Greatest Enemies of Their Own Country' -- Conclusion -- 5 Terrorism as a 'World Crime': The British Empire, International Law, and the Invention of Global Terrorism -- 'A Political Curiosity' -- 'A Dangerous Spot in the Heart of Bengal' |
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'An Internationally Dangerous Manner' -- 'The Final Rights of Humanity' -- 'The Universal Conscience of Mankind' -- 'Enemies of the Human Race' -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Empire, Law, and Terrorism in the 21st Century -- Colonial Genealogies of the 'War on Terror' -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- National Archives of India, New Delhi -- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi -- National Library of India, Kolkata -- Public Record Office, The National Archives, Kew -- India Office Records, British Library, London -- League of Nations Archives, Geneva |
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Waseda University Library, Tokyo -- South Asian American Digital Archive -- Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archive -- National Archives of Singapore -- Private Papers -- Newspapers -- Published Primary Sources -- Unpublished Dissertations -- Books and Articles -- Index |
| Summary |
Explores how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| Notes |
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Terrorism (International law) -- History -- Sources
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Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- History -- Sources
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Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies
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Terrorism (International law)
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Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation.
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Law -- British colonies.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108902278 |
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9781108902274 |
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