“Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India”

Mira Rai Waits University of California, Santa Barbara “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India” Nineteenth- and twentieth- century histories of prisons in British India have followed three narratives. British imperial history presented prisons as exceptional infrastructural improvements essential to governance. In Indian nationalist history, prisons became synonymous with British rule and … Continue reading “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India”