Sherman, Taylor C. <br/><br/>
State violence and punishment in India / 
Taylor C. Sherman 
 - London;  New York:  Routledge,  2010. 
 - xi, 246 p.;  25 cm. 
 - (Royal Asiatic Society books). .
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : state violence and punishment in India, 1919-56 -- Jallianwala Bagh, the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and the limits of state power in India, 1919-20 -- Disobedience and discord : the non-cooperation movement, 1920-25 -- Extra-judicial punishments and the civil disobedience movement, 1930-34 -- Legislating against communal violence : the United Provinces Goonda Act and the Bombay Whipping Act, 1929-38 -- The hunger strikes of the Lahore Conspiracy Case prisoners, 1929-39 -- The Second World War and India's coercive network, 1939-46 -- Partition and the transitional state in India, 1947-48 -- The police action in Hyderabad and the making of the postcolonial state in India, 1947-56 -- Conclusion : rethinking colonial punishment, reassessing postcolonial India. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415559706 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415559707 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780203865316 (ebook) 0203865316 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political Violence--History--India<br/>Violence--History--India
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Politics and Government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.035  / SHE/S