The Frontier Crimes Regulation in Colonial India: Local Critiques and Persistent Effects

Pant, Saurabh

doi:10.1080/00856401.2018.1531470

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“…An additional advantage of focusing on FCR is that it had a 'lasting post-colonial afterlife' as it remained in force till 2018 in Pakistan's tribal agencies in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) (Hopkins 2015: 385). An extensive literature in history and anthropology has studied how the British imperial rule used the FCR to devise a space of judicial and administrative 'exception' in Pakistan's North-West (Allen 2012;Beattie 2013;Hopkins 2015Hopkins , 2020Pant 2018). The inhabitants of FCR regions were subjected to a different system of conflict resolution which depended on the intervention of the council of tribal elders, popularly known as the jirga, and operated under the direct oversight of the colonial bureaucracy.…”

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Malik¹,

Mirza²,

Rehman³

2023

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2023

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Landscape, race, and power on the Indo-Afghan frontier, c.1840-c.1880

Lally

2020

South Asian History and Culture

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Landscape defined a problematic of colonial rule on the nineteenth-century Indo-Afghan frontier, connected, as it was, to contemporary ideas about difference novelly articulated in racial terms. This connection was the product of numerous developments, drawing on Enlightenment ideas about race and development and on historical analogy with the late eighteenth-century Scottish Highlands, as well as nineteenth-century ethnographic inquiry linking geographic isolation with racial preservation or descent. These 'noble savages' were also more likely to fall under the spell of charismatic Sufi leaders, spurring them to fierce resistance of political authority and acts of violence, and earning them a reputation for 'fanaticism'. Landscape also presented a problem for the expression of colonial power; for the ruggedness and remoteness of the frontier made the expatriate population vulnerable in an area where the colonial presence remained thin and where criminal prosecution could be easily evaded. The consequence was the Frontier Crimes Regulation, which devolved authority for the prosecution of crime and execution of justice to the heads of tribal societies according to local custom, and the Murderous Outrages Act, which empowered colonial officers to suspend due judicial process and order anachronistic and morally abhorrent forms of punishment. Just as ideas about race were ambivalent and contradictory, so, too, was colonial law.

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The Frontier Crimes Regulation in Colonial India: Local Critiques and Persistent Effects

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