In the presence of witnesses: petitioning and judicial 'publics' in western India, c. 1600-1820

Indian observers of the East India Company’s emerging political order in the late eighteenth century were, as is well known, struck by the inaccessibility of its officials to their Indian subjects. Both Indo-Muslim traditions of akhlāq, and Sanskrit-influenced norms for nīti or political ethics, em...

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Tác giả chính: O'Hanlon, R
Định dạng: Journal article
Được phát hành: Cambridge University Press 2019