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CATEGORIES:Violence and Conflict Graduate Workshop\, Faculty 
 of History
SUMMARY:A ‘military’ rule of law and the politics of the e
 xception in colonial Punjab\, 1849-1870 - Mark Con
 dos (Wolfson College)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20121030T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20121030T190000
UID:TALK40861AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/40861
DESCRIPTION:"From the 1780s onwards\, the idea of a government
  which was subject to the rule of law provided one
  of the strongest moral endorsements for British c
 olonial rule in India. According to this understan
 ding\, the law was supposed to be something univer
 sal which applied equally to everyone. In this way
 \, the moral legitimacy of British colonial legali
 ty was established in contradistinction to the arb
 itrary sovereignty and personal discretion of the 
 regime of oriental despotism which it had replaced
 . At the same time\, however\, this notion of a un
 iversal law also existed in a perpetual tension wi
 th a discourse of emergency and exceptionalism whi
 ch argued that\, as a ‘regime of conquest\,’ the B
 ritish government in India also needed to preserve
  an ‘illimitable’ sovereignty of discretionary aut
 hority and powers. Nowhere was this more apparent 
 than in the colonial administration of Punjab\, wh
 ere British officials insisted that the province w
 as uniquely well–suited to a highly authoritarian 
 form of rule due to the supposedly warlike and bac
 kward nature of its inhabitants. This paper examin
 es how the tensions between the rule of law and di
 scourses of exceptionalism were elaborated in Punj
 ab. It argues that the Punjab system of governance
  represented a fundamentally ‘military’ form of go
 vernment\, underpinned by the priorities and polit
 ics of pacification\, and the need to preserve Bri
 tish prestige as India’s ‘conquering race.’"
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2 Alison Richard Building
CONTACT:Gui Xi Young
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