Cambridge is publishing a new
book tracing the genealogy of counter-terrorism laws in colonial India.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Using India as a case study,
Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by
colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the
nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of
'the terrorist' in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with an
examination of the first international law to target global terrorism in the
1930s. Drawing on a wide range of archival research and a detailed empirical
study of evolving emergency laws in British India, he argues that the idea of
terrorism emerged as a deliberate strategy by officials seeking to depoliticize
the actions of anti-colonial revolutionaries, and that many of the ideas
embedded in this colonial legislation continue to shape contemporary
understandings of terrorism today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph McQuade, University of
Toronto
Joseph McQuade is the RCL
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Asian Institute.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. The colonial prose
of counterterrorism
1. Ethereal assassins: colonial
law and 'hereditary crime' in the nineteenth century
2. 'The magical lore of Bengal':
surveillance, swadeshi, and propaganda by bomb, 1890s to 1913
3. 'The eye of government is on
them': anti-colonialism and emergency during the First World War
4. Indefinite emergency:
revolutionary politics and 'terrorism' in interwar India
5. Terrorism as a 'world crime':
the British Empire, international law, and the invention of global terrorism
Conclusion. Empire, law, and
terrorism in the twenty-first century.
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