James Jaffe is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of several books on British and Anglo-Indian history, most recently Ironies of Colonial Governance: Law, Custom and Justice in Colonial India (CUP, 2015). He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the US-UK Fulbright Commission, and the Ford Foundation at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

• Introduction: varieties of lay adjudication; 1. The Grand Jury, ca. 1774–1865; 2. Trial by Jury: the first decade, 1861–1872; 3. The climacteric of the 1890s; 4. 'Grim presents:' I. C. S. judges and trial by jury; 5. Emasculating the Jury, 1908–1919; 6. Trial by Jury and the state of emergency, 1920–1939; 7. Democracy and its discontents: the jury trial during war and independence, 1939–1973; Conclusion: Indians in the empire.