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Bibliography Prisons in Colonial India1 Bibliography Prisons in Colonial India1 This bibliography covers colonial prisons in India, foremost in the North-Western Provinces/United Provinces. References for other Provinces and related topics are not researched systematically. This bibliography does not claim to be exhaustive. I am grateful for additions, corrections, suggestions. Please send those to: [email protected] GENERAL SOURCES: Adam, Hargrave Lee (1909): The Indian criminal. archive.org. Carpenter, Mary (1868): Six months in India. I: Longmans, Green, and co. (I). Carpenter, Mary (1868): Six months in India. II: Longmans, Green, and co. (II). Carpenter, Mary (1877): East India (Prison Discipline). Report to Marquis of Salisbury by Miss Carpenter on Prison Discipline, and Female education in India. Online: GIPE. Clark, Stewart (1868): History of the Central Prisons of the North-Western Provinces. Compilation of report and replies: a) Report No. 127, 1860 by Stewart Clark Inspector- General of Рrisons, North- Western Provinces, tо George Couper, Esq. C.B. Secretaгy to Government, N. - W Provinces dated Nynee Tal, the 3rd September 1860 b) Reply No. 2175А. оf 1861, from Sir George Couper, Baronet, Secretary to Government, N.- W. Provinces, to S. Clark Esquire, Inspector- General of Prisons, North- Western Provinces. Dated Nynee Tal, the 20th August, 1861. c) Letter from Sir George Couper, Baronet, Secretary to Government, N. W. Provinces, tо W. Grey, Esquire, Secretary to Government of India, Home Department., dated Nynee Tal, 25th July 1861 d) (COPY.) No. 2048. Extract frоm the Proceedings of the Right Honorable the Governor-General of India in Council, in the Home Department, (Judicial), under date the 21st April, 1862. e) No. 1265А. of 1862, General Department, N.-W. Provinces, dated Nynee Tal, the 9th of Jay, 1862. Received, 1th May 1862. British Library (IOR/L/PJ/6/726, File 185; V/27/170/8). 1 I am grateful for the generous report of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). MICHAELA DIMMERS 17.12.19 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRISONS IN COLONIAL INDIA GENERAL: SOURCES, CONT. Cross (1889): Memorandum on some of the results of Indian Administration during the past thirty years of British Rule in India. London. Lundgren, Egron (1872): En mlares anteckningar; utdrag ur dagböcker och bref: Indien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt. Mullaly, Frederick S. (1892): Notes on Criminal Classes of the Madras Presidency. Delhi University Library, Online. Nehru, Jawaharlal (circa 1933): A window in prison & prison-land. Allahabad. Nehru, J.L (1988): An Autobiography. 6. Aufl. Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund. Nehru, Jawaharlal: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Unter Mitarbeit von general ed.: S. Gopal. New Delhi: Indraprastha Press. Volumes pertaining to his incarceration. Online: https://nehruportal.nic.in/writings?page=1 Pullan, A.G.P (1945): Indian Prison Reform. Review. In: Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series 27 (3/4). Punjab (India). Jail Dept. (1978): Socio-economic background of prisoners in Punjab jails: [Chandigarh : Inspector-General of Prisons. Spry, Henry H. (1837): Modern India; with illustrations of the resources and capabilities of Hindustan. Vol. I.. London: Whittaker. Spry, Henry H. (1837): Modern India; with illustrations of the resources and capabilities of Hindustan. Vol. II.. London: Whittaker. Starte, O.H.B. (1933): Reformation of Offender in India. A Handbook for the use of Workers amongst Delinquents in India: Bombay: Government Central Press). Tarapore, Lt Col P.K (1936): Prison Reform in India: Humphrey Milford. Temple, Richard (1881): India in 1880. Gokhale, Pune. Thornhill, Mark (1899): Haunts and hobbies of an Indian official. London: John Murray. Times of India (July 3rd, 1889): By Paths of Crime in India: I.--Some Jail Birds. In: Times of India, July 3rd, 1889 (4). 2 MICHAELA DIMMERS 17.12.19 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRISONS IN COLONIAL INDIA GENERAL: SOURCES, CONT. Times of India (April 25th, 1930): Riot in Alipore Central Jail. Warders Stoned. Prisoners Refuse to Obey Orders. In: Times of India, April 25th, 1930, p. 14. Yang, Anand A. (1985): Crime and Criminality in British India: Tuscon: University of Arizona Press (42). Yang, Anand A. (1987): Disciplining Natives: Prisons and Prisoners in Early Nineteenth Century India. In: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 10 (2), pp. 28–45. DOI: 10.1080/00856408708723100. Yang, Anand A. (1994): The Voice of colonial Discipline and Punishment: Knowledge, Power and the Penological Discourse in early Nineteenth Century India. In: Indo-British Review 21 (2), pp. 62–71. Yang, Anand A. (2003): Indian Convict Workers in Southeast Asia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In: Journal of World History 14 (2), pp. 179–208. SECONDARY LITERATURE: Alexander, Jocelyn; Anderson, Clare (2008): Politics, Penalty and (Post-) Colonialism - An introduction. In: Cultural and Social History 5 (4), pp. 391–394. Alexander, Jocelyn; Anderson, Clare (2008): Politics, Penalty and (Post-) Colonialism - An introduction. In: Cultural and Social History 5 (4), pp. 391–394. Anderson, Clare (2000): Convicts in the Indian Ocean. Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53. London, Basingstoke: Macmillan Publishers Limited; Macmillan Distribution Limited [Distributor]. Anderson, Clare (2001): Fashioning Identities: Convict Dress in Colonial South and Southeast Asia. In: History Workshop Journal 52, pp. 152–174. Anderson, Clare (2001): Fashioning Identities: Convict Dress in Colonial South and Southeast Asia. In: History Workshop Journal 52, pp. 152–174. Anderson, Clare (2004): Legible bodies. Race, criminality and colonialism in South Asia. Oxford: Berg. Anderson, Clare (2007): Sepoys, Servants and Settlers: Convict Transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945. In: Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown (Ed.): Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Hurst and Company, pp. 186–220. 3 MICHAELA DIMMERS 17.12.19 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRISONS IN COLONIAL INDIA GENERAL: SECONDARY LITERATURE, CONT. Anderson, Clare (2007): The Indian Uprising of 1857-8. Prisons, Prisoners and Rebellion. London: Anthem Press (Anthem South Asian Studies). Anderson, Clare (2008 (published online: 2015)): The Politics of Punishment in Colonial Mauritius, 1766–1887. In: Cultural and Social History 5 (4), pp. 411–422. DOI: 10.2752/147800408X341622. Anderson, Clare (2009): Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century. In: FSLA 30 (1), pp. 93–109. DOI: 10.1080/01440390802673856. Anderson, Clare (2012): Subaltern lives. Biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790- 1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Critical Perspectives on Empire). Anderson, Clare (2016): ‘The Ferringees are flying—the ship is ours! ’. In: Indian Economic & Social History Review 42 (2), pp. 143–186. DOI: 10.1177/001946460504200201. Anderson, Clare (2018): The Andaman Islands Penal Colony. Race, Class, Criminality, and the British Empire. In: International Review of Social History 63 (S26), pp. 25–43. DOI: 10.1017/S0020859018000202. Anderson, Clare (2018): The British Indian Empire, 1789-1939. In: Clare Anderson (Ed.): A global history of convicts and penal colonies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 211–243. Anderson, Clare (2019): Convicts, Commodities, and Connections in British Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1789–1866. In: International Review of Social History 64 (S27), pp. 205–227. DOI: 10.1017/S0020859019000129. Anderson, Clare (Ed.) (2018): A global history of convicts and penal colonies. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Anderson, Clare; Arnold, David (2007): Envisioning the Colonial Prison. In: Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown (eds.): Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Hurst and Company, pp. 304–331. Arnold, David (2004): Introduction: Life Histories in India. In: David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn (eds.): Telling lives in India. Biography, Autobiography, and Life History: Indiana University Press, p 1-28. Arnold, David (2004): The Self and the Cell: Indian Prison Narratives as Life Histories. In: David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn (eds.): Telling lives in India. Biography, Autobiography, and Life History: Indiana University Press, pp. 29–53. 4 MICHAELA DIMMERS 17.12.19 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRISONS IN COLONIAL INDIA GENERAL: SECONDARY LITERATURE, CONT. Arnold, David (2005): India: the prisoners’ revolt. In: IIAS Newsletter 39, p. 6. Arnold, David (2007): India: The Contested Prison. In: Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown (eds): Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Hurst and Company, pp. 147–184. Arnold, David (2008): The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India. In: David Arnold and David Hardiman (eds): Subaltern Studies VIII. Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha, VIII. 6. Aufl. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 148–187. Arnold, David (2009): Salutation and Subversion: Gestural Politics in Nineteenth-Century India. In: Past and Present Supplement 4, pp. 191–211. Banerjee, Sumanta (2006): Crime and urbanization. Calcutta in the nineteenth century. New Delhi: Tulika Books. Banerjee, Sumanta (2009): The wicked City. Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta. Minnesota: Orient Black Swan. Bashford, Alison; Strange, Carolyn (2003): Isolation and exclusion in the modern world. An introductory essay. In: Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford (eds): Isolation. Places and Practices of exclusion. London: Routledge, pp. 1–19.
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