Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen

The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-923618-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 866 g

The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial legal history from the point of view of Victorian England's most important legal authority. An experienced barrister, journalist, Legal Member of the Governor-General's Council in India, author of the inaugurative and consolidatory History of the Criminal Law of England (1883), and, finally, a justice on the Queen's Bench, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen argues that far from being the victim of a judicially-engineered execution, Nuncomar (a powerful Indian accused of forgery and conspiracy) received a fair trial from Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of the newly-formed Supreme Court in Bengal, and from his brethren. In mounting this argument, Stephen explicitly challenges the long-held judgments of Nuncomar, Impey, and Warren Hastings that had been pronounced earlier in the century by Stephen's mentor, the influential historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, and accepted thereafter. This new edition of Stephen's text (the first since the work was published more than a hundred years ago) includes a detailed introduction, table of dates, glossary, and a fully augmented index, as well as extensive explanatory notes. This apparatus offers important contextual information that not only supports scholars who undertake work on this historical period but also allows a wider readership to understand more fully Stephen's complex and provocative text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodensky, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Note on the Text

- Introduction

- Table of Dates

- I: Introductory

- II: The Supreme Council and the Supreme Court

- III: Hastings, Francis, Impey and his Colleagues-Nuncomar-Dissensions in the Council

- IV: Nuncomar's Accusations against Hastings

- V: Accusations brought against Nuncomar by Warren Hastings and by Mohun Persaud

- VI: On the Evidence in the Trial of Nuncomar

- VII: From the Conviction of Nuncomar to his Execution

- VIII: From the Execution of Nuncomar to the Impeachment of Impey

- IX: The Impeachment of Impey

- X: Nuncomar's Petition

- XI: Of the Quarrel Between the Governor-General in Council and the Supreme Court

- XII: The Patna Cause

- XIII: The Supreme Court and the Europeans in Calcutta.- Touchet's Petition

- XIV: The Cossijurah Cause

- XV: The Sudder Diwani Adalat

- XVI: The Lucknow Affidavits

- XVII: Barwell's Letters

- JFS Index

- Editor's Index

- Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Rodensky is the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor in the Humanities at Wellelsey College. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. She is the author of The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel (OUP, 2003) and the editor of Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu (Penguin, 2006), and The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel (OUP, 2013).