English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought

Memon, Ahmed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-7743 2024. English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought. London Review of International Law 12 (1) , pp. 23-45. 10.1093/lril/lrae005

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Abstract

In this article, I argue that caste was a central factor in the development of British international legal thought in the subcontinent. Specifically, I contend that British international legal thought entrenched caste hegemony into the broader racial civilisation hierarchy of international law in the nineteenth century.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	2050-6333
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 March 2024
Date of Acceptance:	14 February 2024
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2024 14:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167529

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