Table of Contents

The Colonial and the Imperial: India and Britain in the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings;; Into the Labyrinth: The birth of Justice as a Discourse of Governance;; "Vakil Raj": The Indian National Congress and the Birth of the Lawyer as Political Representative;; From Imperial Justice to Transcendental Freedom: The Samnyasin as Leader in the Movement for National Independence ;; An Imperial Constitution? Justice as Equity and the Making of the Indian
Constitution

About the Author

Mithi Mukherjee is Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder. She teaches modern South Asian history and the history of law and human rights.

Reviews

"This is a truly original and path-breaking book in more ways than one can list. It provides an innovative history of the construction of the idea of justice and its institutional locations in modern India ... It presents a refreshingly original reading of the relationship between discourses of law, justice, and sovereignty. In doing so it opens up a veritable new research agenda on the relationship between power and politics in Indian history. The book
contains a wealth of new archival material. But it also brings freshness to familiar material. The book is unfailingly stimulating and will transform your thinking about how power is legitimized and contested."

--PRATAP BHANU MEHTA, President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi
"This is an enormously ambitious book that makes good on its intention to offer a legal and political history of India over the past two centuries ... This book will offer rich and illuminating insights not only to those interested in India's imperial association, but also to those engaged with the vexations of public policy in independent India."

--UDAY S. MEHTA, Clarence Francis Professor in the Social Sciences, Amherst College, Amherst