'a fascinating study of legal hierarchies in Britain and India.' Victorian Studies 'will be of interest to students of colonial criminology and scholars more broadly interested in nineteenth-century colonialism.' Itinerario

• Chapter 1 Imperial Miasma; Chapter 2 Theory and the Constitution of Difference; Chapter 3 Imagery and Law in the Creation of Identities; Chapter 4 Scientific Racism and the Constitution of Difference; Chapter 5 The ‘Ethnic’ as a Component of the ‘Criminal’ Class; Chapter 6 Imposing Colonial Legal Identities In India; Chapter 7 Constructing the Sansi as a ‘Criminal’ Class; Chapter 8 Imperial Reflections: A Compelling Insistence;