Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947
Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947
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后殖民刑罚：独立阴影下的自由与镇压，印度 c．
作者：
Mark Brown
本文报告了英属印度殖民地刑罚史的原始档案资料及其后殖民印度国家的重构。它向犯罪学家介绍了一些框架，通过这些框架，后殖民学者试图理解跨越殖民/后殖民鸿沟的统治的连续性和不连续性。这篇文章考察了殖民地刑罚权力的一个例子的后殖民生活，即所谓的“犯罪部落政策”（criminal tribes policy）。在该政策下，超过300万受英国统治的印度臣民的行动受到限制，受到一系列行政规则的约束，有时还受到严厉的惩罚，被隔离在定居点，获得法律救济的机会受到限制。它说明了后殖民印度国家诞生之初，新宪法和基本权利宪章保障了自由、不受约束和自由的生活，但事实证明，对一些人来说，自由就像公民一样难以捉摸，就像臣民一样难以捉摸。
This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one example of colonial penal power, known as the criminal tribes policy, under which more than three million Indian subjects of British rule were restricted in their movements, subject to a host of administrative rules and sometimes severe punishments, sequestered in settlements and limited in access to legal redress. It illustrates how at the birth of the postcolonial Indian state, encompassing visions of a liberal, unfettered and free life guaranteed in a new Constitution and charter of Fundamental Rights, freedom for some was to prove as elusive as citizens as it had been as subjects.