Examining the notions, ideas, and concepts of crime and justice from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the volume covers laws, judiciary, policing, crime, criminals, Dalits, minorities, and violence.

SERIES NOTE ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; PART I. PRECOLONIAL PREMONITIONS: ; 1. WRONGS AND RIGHTS IN THE MARATHA COUNTRY: ANTIQUITY, CUSTOM AND POWER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA BY SUMIT GUHA ; 2. THE BANDIT AS KING BY MALAVIKA KASTURI; ; PART II. COLONIAL CONCERNS: ; 3. FRAMED, BLAMED AND RENAMED: THE RECASTING OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE IN MODERN ASIAN STUDIES BY SCOTT ALAN KUGLE ; 4. DISCIPLINING AND POLICING THE 'CRIMINALS BY BIRTH': DEVELOPMENT OF A DISCIPLINARY SYSTEM, 1871-1900 BY SANJAY NIGAM ; 5. CRIMINAL COMMUNITIES BY RADHIKA SINGHA ; 6. POLICE AND PUBLIC ORDER BY RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR ; 7. DISCIPLINING 'NATIVES': PRISONS AND PRISONERS IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY INDIA BY ANAND A. YANG ; 8. THE SELF AND THE CELL: INDIAN PRISON NARRATIVES AS LIFE HISTORIES BY DAVID ARNOLD ; PART III. LEGALITIES AND ILLEGALITIES: ; 9. AMBIGUITY BY RANAJIT GUHA ; 10. THE EMERGENCE OF FEMINISM IN INDIA, 1850-1920 BY PADMA ANAGOL ; 11. TELLING TALES BY SAURABH DUBE ; PART IV. POSTCOLONIAL PREDILECTIONS ; 12. OUTLAW WOMAN: THE POLITICS OF PHOOLAN DEVI BY RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN ; 13. DEATH OF A KOTWAL: THE INJURIOUS POLITICS OF RECOGNITION BY ANUPAMA RAO ; 14. SEMIOTICS OF TERROR: MUSLIM CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN HINDU RASHTRA BY TANIKA SARKAR ; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. She is also Fellow of Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. Saurabh Dube is Professor of History, Center of Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.