Description: "Disaffected examines the effects of Section 124a, a notorious colonial law targeting "disaffection" still used in India today. Disaffection, the book argues, is crucial to understanding the centrality of affect to imperial governance; the varied forms that critique took under conditions of censorship; and the vexed emergence of Indian nationalism"--
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Disaffected offers an intricate, dynamic account of the way legal culture works far beyond the remit of a legal statute with effects again, intended and unintended evident in our own legal cultures today. [It] is an exemplary work of legal cultural studies.
-- "Modern Philology"