The Insecurity State : Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India (Hardcover)

Introduction: fear, panic, and the violence of empire; 1. Colonial insecurity in early British India, 1757?1857; 2. Re-assessing the 'garrison state': pacification and colonial disquiet in Punjab; 3. Law, the Punjab school, and the 'kooka outbreak' of 1872; 4. Frontier terror and the Murderous Outrages Act of 1867; 5. Imperial recruiting and imperial anxieties, 1870?1920; Conclusion: colonial vulnerability and the insecurity of empire; Epilogue: the insecurity state today.