Saha, Jonathan

Law, disorder and the colonial state: corruption in Burma c.1900 / Jonathan Saha, Lecturer in Modern History,University of Bristol - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - x,166 p.; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 133-161).

1 Making Misconduct Constructing an economy of discipline
The arithmetic of punishment
Clerical staff
Myo-oks or miniature monarchs European subordinate officials
Misconduct in delta
2 The Career of Inspector Pakiri
State power and subordinate officials
of all the queer police of this queer country Inspector Pakiri
Players in a theatre state
3 Whiter than White
Anti-corruption and British authority Deputy commissioners as bureaucratic despots
The plot within the plot
’Native’ quarrels and white rule
4 The Male State
Gendered subjects, gendered state
Women in Burma (and their henpecked husbands)
Compromising situations Misconduct and gendered violence
The fashioning of the male state

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Colonial administrators--History--Burma
Colonial administrators--History--Great Britain
Misconduct in office--History--Burma
Corruption--History--Burma
British--History--Burma


Burma--History
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.--Asia

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