• Introduction: Crime, Paradox, Fiction, Theory ; 1. The 'Criminal' Colony Before New Police ; 2. Demanding Reform: From Fielding to Peel ; 3. Resisting the New Police ; 4. New Policing, India, and Thuggee ; 5. Representing the Mutiny ; 6. Shifting Images of the Criminal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

As Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee argues in his insightful, well-researched Crime and Empire, the British campaigns against both sati and Thuggee were part of a more general reformist approach to India that at once mirrored the rise of the "new police" in Britain and had the effect of criminalizing Indian culture as a whole. And if secular, utilitarian reformism worked to criminalize India, that was just as true of evangelicalism, as Jeffrey Cox points out: "For evangelicals ... something was very wrong with India, and the source of the evil was crystal clear: it was religion. Hinduism was obscene and cruel and bloody and lascivious, and so forth, and because of Hinduism, Indians were liars, thieves, widow-burners, murderers of infants, and so forth"(24)...

• Introduction: Crime, Paradox, Fiction, Theory ; 1. The 'Criminal' Colony Before New Police ; 2. Demanding Reform: From Fielding to Peel ; 3. Resisting the New Police ; 4. New Policing, India, and Thuggee ; 5. Representing the Mutiny ; 6. Shifting Images of the Criminal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

As Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee argues in his insightful, well-researched Crime and Empire, the British campaigns against both sati and Thuggee were part of a more general reformist approach to India that at once mirrored the rise of the "new police" in Britain and had the effect of criminalizing Indian culture as a whole. And if secular, utilitarian reformism worked to criminalize India, that was just as true of evangelicalism, as Jeffrey Cox points out: "For evangelicals ... something was very wrong with India, and the source of the evil was crystal clear: it was religion. Hinduism was obscene and cruel and bloody and lascivious, and so forth, and because of Hinduism, Indians were liars, thieves, widow-burners, murderers of infants, and so forth"(24)...

• Introduction: Crime, Paradox, Fiction, Theory ; 1. The 'Criminal' Colony Before New Police ; 2. Demanding Reform: From Fielding to Peel ; 3. Resisting the New Police ; 4. New Policing, India, and Thuggee ; 5. Representing the Mutiny ; 6. Shifting Images of the Criminal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

As Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee argues in his insightful, well-researched Crime and Empire, the British campaigns against both sati and Thuggee were part of a more general reformist approach to India that at once mirrored the rise of the "new police" in Britain and had the effect of criminalizing Indian culture as a whole. And if secular, utilitarian reformism worked to criminalize India, that was just as true of evangelicalism, as Jeffrey Cox points out: "For evangelicals ... something was very wrong with India, and the source of the evil was crystal clear: it was religion. Hinduism was obscene and cruel and bloody and lascivious, and so forth, and because of Hinduism, Indians were liars, thieves, widow-burners, murderers of infants, and so forth"(24)...