Languages of Injustice: The culture of 'prize-giving' and information gathering on female infanticide in nineteenth-century India

Anagol, Padma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-4156 2017. Languages of Injustice: The culture of 'prize-giving' and information gathering on female infanticide in nineteenth-century India. Cultural and Social History 14 (4) , pp. 429-445. 10.1080/14780038.2017.1329124

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Abstract

Areas that remain understudied on female infanticide in India are information-gathering and the collaboration of elites. I examine the Company government’s shift from coercion to palliative approaches such as the institution of prize-cultures in nineteenth-century western India. Questions asked are: what was the role of reformers such as Bhau Daji as prize-winner in the essay competitions? how did it change notions of justice? How was the body of the Indian woman criminalised? I conclude that essay competitions in prize cultures acted as an instrument of rule whereby rebuke or reward allowed the easy importation of British notions of justice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1478-0038
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 September 2018
Date of Acceptance:	20 March 2017
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 21:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115111

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