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Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia Anderson, Clare (University of Leicester, UK)
Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia
Anderson, Clare (University of Leicester, UK)
From the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the British incarcerated tens of thousands of prisoners in South Asian jails and transported tens of thousands of convicts to penal settlements overseas in South East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Islands. This title explores the treatment of these native criminals.
288 pages, 20ill.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 1, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9781859738603 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 215 × 140 × 19 mm · 326 g |
| Language | English |