Law, Disorder and the Colonial State Corruption in Burma c.1900

In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and il

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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

This informative series covers the broad span of modern imperial history while also exploring the recent developments in former colonial states where residues of empire can still be found. The books provide in-depth examinations of empires as competing and complementary power structures encouraging the reader to reconsider their understanding of international and world history during recent centuries. Titles include: Tony Ballantyne Orientalism and race Aryanism in the British Empire Peter F. Bang and C. A. Bayly (editors) TRIBUTARY EMPIRES IN GLOBAL HISTORY James Beattie EMPIRE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANXIETY, 1800–1920 Health, Aesthetics and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia Robert J. Blyth The Empire of the Raj Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858–1947 Roy Bridges (editor) IMPERIALISM, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICA Studies Presented to John Hargreaves Kit Candlin THE LAST CARIBBEAN FRONTIER, 1795–1815 Hilary M. Carey (editor) EMPIRES OF RELIGION Nandini Chatterjee THE MAKING OF INDIAN SECULARISM Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960 Esme Cleall MISSIONARY DISCOURSE Negotiating Difference in the British Empire, c.1840–95 T. J. Cribb (editor) IMAGINED COMMONWEALTH Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English Michael S. Dodson Orientalism, Empire and National Culture India, 1770–1880 Jost Dülffer and Marc Frey (editors) ELITES AND DECOLONIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Bronwen Everill ABOLITION AND EMPIRE IN SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA Ulrike Hillemann ASIAN EMPIRE AND BRITISH KNOWLEDGE China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion B.D. Hopkins THE MAKING OF MODERN AFGHANISTAN Ronald Hyam Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion Third Edition

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General Editors: Megan Vaughan, Kings’ College, Cambridge and Richard Drayton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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