Disaffected : : Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere / / Tanya Agathocleous.

Disaffected examines the effects of anti-sedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124A, a law that used the term "disaffection" to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 33 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: A Colonial Genealogy of a Political Emotion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE Affectation: The Aesthete and the Babu on Trial
  • TWO Parody: Colonial Mimicry, Colonial Parody, and the Multiplicity of Punch
  • THREE Review: Worlding White Supremacy and Indian Nationalism
  • FOUR Syncretism: From East and West to the Darker Nations
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index