Why Colonies Selectively Repress Crime: Analyzing Security Decisions of the East India Company

• In Event: Explaining Patterns of Violence

Brief Overview

This article argues that colonial forces in Bengal (1769-1773) selectively repressed criminal violence to consolidate authority and increase coercive power over local elites, as revealed through process tracing of over 9,000 archival records.

Author

• Adee Rose Weller, Emory University