Class Syllabus

2. The New World I (Sept 11)

• Robert A. Williams, Jr. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought (part 1)

3. The New World II (Sept 18)

• Robert A. Williams, Jr. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought (part 2 and 3)
  
• Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui, Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns and Africans, (Minn., 1996) ch. 2: "Partial Recognition to the Barbarous" (course reader)

• Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State, Chs. 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, conclusion
  
• Donald Quataert, `Why Study the Ottoman Empire?' in The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge, 2000) (course reader)
  
• Donald Quataert, `Inter-Communal Cooperation and Conflict' in The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge, 2000) (course reader)
  
• Dankwart A. Rostow, `The Military Legacy', in L. Carl Brown (ed.) Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint in the Balkans and the Middle East (New York, 1996) (course reader)

  Recommended:
  

• Youssef Courbage and Philippe Fargues, Christians and Jews under Islam, chs. 1-5 (1-129)

5. India I (October 2)

• Ayesha Jalal, ch. 4: `Muslims as a Legal and Political Category: Subjecthood in Theory and Practice,' in Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, Oxford, 2001; (course reader)
  
• Bernard Cohn, ch. 3: `Law and the Colonial State in India' in Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India, Princeton, 1996; (course reader)
  
• Michael Anderson, `Islamic Law and the Colonial Encounter in British India,' in David Arnold and Peter Robb, eds., Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader, London, Curzon Press, 1993, (165-185); (course reader)
  
• David Washbrook, "Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India," Modern Asian Studies, 15, 3((1981), 649-721; (course reader)

6. India II (Oct 9)

• Sir Henry Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas, Classics of Anthropology, 1986 (part 1)

7. India III (Oct 16)

• Sir Henry Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas, Classics of Anthropology, 1986 (part 2)

8. North Africa / Palestine (Oct 23)

• Youssef Courbage and Philippe Fargues, Christians and Jews under Islam, chs. 6-8
  
• J. L. Miége, "Legal Developments in the Maghreb, 1830-1930," (pp. 101-109) in W. J. Mommsen & J. A. De Moor, European Expansion and Law; (course reader)

9. Tropical Africa I (Oct 30)

• F. D. Lugard, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
  Chs. X, XI: "Methods of Ruling Native Races" (193-229)
  Chs. XIV, XV: "Land Tenure and Transfer" (280-332)
  Chs. XXVII, XXVIII: "The Law and Courts of Justice" (539-569)
  (All in course reader)

10. Tropical Africa II (Nov. 6)

• Martin Channock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (part 1)

11. Tropical Africa III / South Africa I (Nov. 13)

• Martin Channock, Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (part 2)
  
• Gen. J.C. Smuts, Africa and Some World problems, including the Rhodes Memorial Lectures Delivered in Michaelmas Term, 1930; (course reader)
  o "African Settlement" (37-69)
  o "Native Policy in Africa" (73-103)

12. South Africa II (Nov 20)

• Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject
  
• Law No. 19, 1891 "Native Law" (South Africa); (course reader)

13. Liberalism and the Colonial Subject I (Nov 27)

• Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire

• Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments