HIST 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Frontier Crimes Regulations, Collective Punishment, Governmentality
● 1934
○ kenya got to basically govern themselves by their own traditions
● Frontier crimes regulation FCR 1872
○ Created ideas of space
○ Set administrative practices
○ Norms of rule
○ “Frontier governmentality”
○ Legal pluralism and layered sovereignties
○ NW frontier and tribes
○ Trying to solve tribalism nomadism and violence
○ Native princes ruled fiefdoms
○ Raj
■ got rights over foreign relations defense and communications
○ Collective punishment
○ Blockades
○ Collective fines for harboring criminals or pressing criminal evidence
○ Deputy commissioner
■ could intervene directly if there was going to be bloodshed
○ Jirgas were standardized
■ Council of elders
○ Recorded everything
● Colonial state
○ Territorial relationship
○ Discrete set of relationships
○ Paramountcy over a limited ambit of violence
● Indian penal code 1861
● Criminal tribes act 1871
● Administrative collectivization of punishment
● Tribe
○ Common ancestry and genealogy
○ British kept a census of tribes
○ Had various uses and meanings depending on colony
○ Otherness
■ Criminality
■ Noble savage
■ Primitiveness
● British didn't like nomads bc they were hard to control and tax
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