Full Description
This is the first book-length study on the history of the trial by jury in India, filling a major gap in the histories of law, colonialism, and empire as well as the history of the jury trial. James Jaffe adopts a legal-historical approach to tell the story of the English jury trial in India, from its introduction in the 1860s to its abolition in the 1970s, its backers and detractors (including K.N. Katju and Gandhi, respectively), and how the debate reflected wider political and social concerns, in colonial and postcolonial Britain and India.
Contents
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.
