The Colonial Rule of Law and the Legal Regime of Exception: Frontier "Fanaticism" and State Violence in British India.

LAW of India; CRIMINAL law; HISTORY of criminal justice systems; RULE of law; BRITISH occupation of India, 1765-1947; 19TH century British colonial administration; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century

KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan); INDIA

The article discusses the rule of law in the 19th-century northwest frontier region of India (now an area of Pakistan) during the period of British colonial rule, an area administered as a non-regulation province which allowed for expanded rights of local government and legal officers to deal with criminal issues at their own discretion. Topics include state violence, the East India Company, the Punjab Government, and the creation of the Anglo-Indian Codes pertaining to the administration and procedures related to criminal offenses in India.