Respectable Anxiety, Plebeian Criminality : Politics of the Goondas Act (1923) of Colonial Calcutta
With the Goondas Act of 1923, Calcutta conferred on its police executive powers of deporting virtually any man from the city without a trial under the pretext that he was a violent criminal of migrant origin. The Act deliberately did not define the goonda, as it was ‘known’ to all in the city who he...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2017
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