The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law

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Index 185 Absolutist powers, 17, 26–27, 41–42, 44, 47 Act III, 89 Act X of 1872, 96 Act X of 1875, 96 Adalat, Sadr Diwani, 30, 82 Adalat, Sadr Nizamat, 79, 82 Africa, 25, 36, 113, 114 Agamben, Giorgio, 20–21, 72 Alloula, Malek, 54 Althusser, Louis, 46–47, 49 American Constitution, 44 Amritsar massacre, 32, 101, 118–31, 136. See also Massacres Amritsar: Massacre That Ended the Raj (Draper), 100 Ancient Law (Maine), 36 Anderson, Perry, 159n. 58 Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham, 46 Anthropology, 5, 142 Aristotle, 46 Arraval of St. Philips, 77 Asia, 51, 133 Asiatic Empire, 51 Austin, John, 12–13, 35–37 Baisakhi festival, 99 Baker, J. H., 69 Balibar, Etienne, 140 Balkans, 144 Baltics, 24 Barbados, 75, 76, 108 Barwell, Richard, 80 Bayly, Christopher, 57, 64 Belfast, 106 Belgium, 125 Bendersky, Joseph, 15 Bengal, 28–29, 56, 57; and habeas corpus , 72, 79, 83, 88–91; Regulation, 7, 89 Benjamin, Walter, 33, 95; and martial law, 101, 107, 122–24, 129; on violence , 122–24, 129 Bentham, Jeremy, 35–36, 40, 58 Bentinck, William, 58 Bhabha, Homi, 119 Black Act, 10, 30, 135 Blackstone, William, 69, 104 Boer War, 116 Bogle, Paul, 110 Bombay, 26, 57–59, 65, 80, 85–88 “Borderless world,” notion of, 141, 143 Boycotts, 29 Bracton, Henry de, 2 Brand, Lieutenant, 111–12, 114–15 Brewer, John, 3–4, 108 Bright, John, 110 Bristol, 105, 125 British Constitution, 23–24, 75, 94, 103, 106, 108–9; and the colonial concept of law, 43; and corruption , 24; and habeas corpus, 79; and the Special Reference, 3 Brougham, Henry Peter, 109 Bureaucracy, 36, 39 Burke, Edmund, 24 “But for” clause, 16 Buxton, Charles, 110 Calcutta, 30, 50–51; and Britain’s increasing connection with India, 26; and habeas corpus, 73– 75, 79–85, 90, 92, 96 Calvin, Robert, 45–46 Calvin’s Case, 24, 44–45, 78, 93 Cambridge School of Indian History, 31 Campbell v. Hall, 24, 46, 134, 159n. 27 Canada, 108 Cape of Good Hope, 108 Capital punishment, 111. See also Punishment Carlyle, Thomas, 114–15, 124 Cases Illustrative of Oriental Life and the Application of English Law to India (Perry), 86 Caste, 88 Censuses, 39 Cephalonia, 108 Ceylon, 108 Channel Islands, 87 Charles I (king), 93, 168n. 12 Charter Act of 1813, 26, 57 Charter Act of 1833, 41, 57, 60 Chatterjee, Partha, 28–31, 137, 136 Chelmsford, Lord, 127–28, 137–38, 173n. 94 Chiapas rebellion, 143 Chomsky, Noam, 144 Christianity, 24, 45, 52, 54 Churchill, Winston, 100 Civil disobedience, 127 Civilization: evolution of, 120, 136; meaning of, revision in, 66; stages of, 120 Civil rights, 17, 142 Civil war, 22 Clapham Sect, 66 Clavering, John, 80 Cockburn, Alexander, 112–15 Code Napoleon, 63 Codes of Criminal Procedure, 68, 96, 97 Codification, 55–68 Coke, Edward, 22, 24; and the colonial concept of law, 44–46; and habeas corpus, 69–70, 93 Colaiaco, James, 66 Collège de France, 13 Colonialism, definition of, 22–32 Colonialism’s Culture (Thomas), 22 Comaroff, John, 73 Commentaries (Blackstone), 81 Commission on Global Governance, 141 Common law, 74 Concept of Law, The (Hart), 12–13, 35–37 Consent, age of, 90–91 Considerations on Representative Government (Mill), 56, 119 Constitutional Dictatorship (Rossiter), 17–19 Constitutions. See American Constitution ; British Constitution; Weimar constitution Cornwallis, Lord, 56, 57 Coromandel, 26 Council of War, 110 186 Index Court of Common Pleas, 76 Court of Oyer and Terminer, 79 Courts (Shapiro), 73 Cover, Robert, 33, 122 Creasey, James, 165n. 40 Crime: and the colonial concept of law, 37, 53–54, 59–60; Dow on, 53–54; and habeas corpus, 80, 96. See also Criminal Procedure, Codes of Criminal Procedure, Codes of, 68, 96, 97 “Critique of Violence” (Benjamin), 122–23 Cuddalore, 26 Darian-Smith, Eve, 142 Darwin, Charles, 110 Death penalty. See Capital punishment ; Punishment Deer killing, 10 Defense of India Act, 140 Defense of India Rules, 139 Defense of the Realm Acts, 17, 95 Delhi, 26, 58, 88 Demerera, 108, 109 Demetz, Peter, 122 Democracy, 25, 119; Hart on, 13; and Isonomia, notion of, 8; Montesquieu on, 47; and the rule of law, association of, 10; and the Weimar regime, 15; and World War II, 17 Depression, economic, 18 Derogation provisions, 17 Derrida, Jacques, 124 Despotism, 12, 25; Bentham on, 35; and the colonial concept of law, 35, 38, 47, 52–56, 61, 65–68; Dow on, 53; and fear, 47; and...