Police and Politics in India : Colonial Concepts, Democratic Compulsions: Indian Police 1947-2002 /
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Essentially a sequel to the author's earlier work, Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-supportive Police Forces of South Asia , a history of the Indian police from ancient times to 1947, this book deals with police history, covering some 55 years since Indian independence. Writing about contemporary institutions and events is a risky proposition and more so in this country as the very nature of its polity is forever in a state of flux, not always for the better. Law enforcement and politics are essential, irrevocable and interdependent features of state power and are prone to feed on each other for sustenance. However, unwarranted political manipulation of state institutions, especially the police and the magistracy, a marked feature of Indian law enforcement mechanisms in recent times, is bound to impair democratic freedoms and human rights of the people. Also, all social and political institutions are the product of a nation's historical and philosophical experience through the ages. Indian police is no exception. In some ways, this is like saying that every society gets the police it deserves. Does it follow, therefore, that the Indian people are doomed to live for ever with a callous, overbearing, communalized, often corrupt and unaccountable police force? Not really. Only if the Indian state were to set in motion a calibrated process of substantial reforms in the outdated system of law enforcement, rooted in the mid-nineteerth century, most forms of distortions in police functioning would vanish.
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1 online resource (620 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004752528
The man who loved Egypt : Bimbashi McPherson /
: Romanization of Arabic Script on t.p : Shadharat Sharqiyah Selections from the author's correspondence,Originally published under titlte : Bimbashi Mcpherson : a life in Egypt. : 287 pages : table, map ; 20 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index. : 0563204370
Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order /
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In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran examines Sultan Selim III's social control and surveillance measures. Drawing mainly from a set of inspection registers and censuses from the 1790s, as well as court records she paints a colorful picture of the city's residents and artisans. She argues that the period constitutes the beginnings of large-scale population control and crisis management and urges us to think about the Ottoman Empire as a polity that was increasingly becoming a "statistical" state, along with its contemporaries in Europe, and to go beyond mechanistic models of borrowing that focus primarily on military reform and European influence in our discussions of Ottoman reform and "modernity".
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1 online resource (pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004274556 :
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Law and enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt /
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OCLC 825198061
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Duke University, 2005, under the title Policing the chôra : law enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt. :
xi, 415 pages ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-382) and indexes. :
9781107037137