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Law, disorder and the colonial state: corruption in Burma c.1900 / Jonathan Saha, Lecturer in Modern History,University of Bristol

By: Saha, Jonathan Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: x,166 p.; 22 cmISBN: 9780230358270Subject(s): Colonial administrators -- Burma -- History | Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- History | Misconduct in office -- Burma -- History | Corruption -- Burma -- History | British -- Burma -- History | Burma -- History | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- AdministrationDDC classification: 959.104

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	959.104 SAH/L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P33915

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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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