The Jurisprudence of Travel Literature: Despotism, Excess, and the Common Law

Journal of Law and Society

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-112

  Haldar, Piyel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1542291516     PISSN: 0263323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00280.x     Document Type: Review

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2. 3 Megasthenes in J.W. McCrindle, Ancient India as described by Ktesias the Knidian, Megasthenes and Arrian (1877) 70, 217.
3. 3 T. Roe, in S. Purchas, Hakluyut Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrims, vol. IV (1625) 320.
4. 4 J. Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, Selected from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India, vol. II (1988) 285.
5. 5 id., p. 288.
6. 6 id., vol. I, p. 234.
7. 7 id., vol. II, p. 245.
8. 8 See G. Pommier, ‘From the Gods to Monotheism, from Demons to the Devil; An Examination of Biblical Texts concerning the Singularization of the devil, in the light of Freudian Metapsychology’ in Jouvert < http://social.chass.ncsu.edu > 1–19. On the more political thematic of jouissance and fantasies of despotism. see A. Grosrichard, The Sultan's Court; European Fantasies of the East (1998).
9. 9 W. Hawkins, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 39.
10. 10 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. II, p. 458.
11. 11 di Conti, op. cit., n. 1.
12. 12 W. Finch, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. III, p. 54.
13. 13 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. II, p. 10.
14. 14 On the proximity between enjoyment and the point of death, see G. Bataille, Eroticism (1962).
15. 15 E. Terry, in Purchas, op. cit. n. 3, vol. IX, pp. 316–7.
16. 16 id., p. 321.
17. 17 Roe, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 4, vol. IV, p. 449.
18. 18 id., p. 386.
19. 19 id., p. 453.
20. 20 Finch, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 4, vol. III, p. 39.
21. 21 N. Manucci, Memoirs of the Mogul Court, ed. M. Edwards (1978) 178.
22. 22 F. Bernier, History of the States of the Great Moghul (1745) 211.
23. 23 E. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790, 1968 edn.) 97–107.
24. 24 E.F Oaten, European Travellers in India (1902) at 41.
25. 25 Plato, The Laws, iii. iv. 145
26. 26 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. III, p. 419.
27. 27 Manucci, op. cit, n. 21, p. 35.
28. 28 id., p. 37.
29. 29 Manucci, op. cit., n. 21, p. 36.
30. 30 Terry, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 4, vol. IX, p. 311.
31. 31 Bernier, op. cit., n. 22, pp. 273–4.
32. 32 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. I, p. 250.
33. 33 K.S. Lal, The Mughal Harem (1988) 58.
34. 34 T. Coryate, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 234.
35. 35 Manucci, op. cit., n. 21, p. 34.
36. 36 id., p. 33.
37. 37 id., p. 62.
38. 38 Grosrichard, op. cit., n. 8, p. 155.
39. 39 Roe, op. cit., n. 3, at p. 332.
40. 40 id.
41. 41 id., at p. 319.
42. 42 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. I, p. 234.
43. 43 id., p. 154.
44. 44 Oaten, op. cit., n. 24, p. 99.
45. 45 A. Dow, The History of Hindostan (1772) vii.
46. 46 A. Shutz, ‘ Desiring Society: Autopoesis Beyond the Paradigm of Mastership ’ (1994) 5 Law and Critique 149–64. Or as Zizek puts it: ‘Enjoyment is provided by an awareness that people were living in an universe absolved of uncertainty, since the system possessed an answer to everything, but above all the enjoyment of the very stupidity of the system–a relish in the emptiness of the official ritual.’ (S. Zizek, The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994) 64.)
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48. 48 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. II, p. 514.
49. 49 A. Nikiten, ‘ Travels of Athanasius Nikiten of Twer ’ in India in the Fifteenth Century, ed. R. Major (1858) 14–15.
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51. 51 D. Barbarosa, in Oaten, op. cit., n. 24, p. 99.
52. 52 Grosrichard, op. cit., n. 8, p. 19.
53. 53 Hawkins, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, pp. 32–33.
54. 54 Bernier, op. cit., n. 22, p. 236.
55. 55 id., p. 238.
56. 56 id., p. 237.
57. 57 Terry, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IX, p. 326.
58. 58 Dow, op. cit., n. 45, p. xvi.
59. 59 J.‐B. Tavernier, Travels in India vol. I (2001) 125–6.
60. 60 Bernier, op. cit., n. 22, pp. 235–6.
61. 61 Roe, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 440.
62. 62 Forbes, op. cit., n. 5, vol. III, p. 185.
63. 63 Hawkins, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 38.
64. 64 Terry in id., vol. IX, p. 27.
65. 65 Bernier, op. cit., n. 22, p. 13.
66. 66 Forbes, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 184.
67. 67 Roe, in id., pp. 327–8.
68. 68 Hawkins, in id., p. 46.
69. 69 Roe, in id., p. 405.
70. 70 id., p. 325.
71. 71 id., p. 328.
72. 72 id., p. 333.
73. 73 H. Verlest, A View of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the English in Bengal (1772) at 45.
74. 74 Zizek, op. cit., n. 46, at p. 94.
75. 75 Roe, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, pp. 375–6.
76. 76 Bernier, op. cit., n. 22, p. 267.
77. 77 Forbes, op. cit., n. 4, vol. II, p. 258.
78. 78 Oaten, op. cit., n. 24, p. 142.
79. 79 Hawkins, in Purchas, op. cit., n. 3, vol. IV, p. 14.
80. 80 Ralph Fitch, cited in R. Masani, Britain in India; An Account of British Rule in the Indian Subcontinent (1960) 5.
81. 81 D. Kincaid, British Social Life in India, 1608–1937 (1973) 41.
82. 82 ‘…sex…was only one of several forces [within the Imperial Harem] and one of relatively little importance.’ L.P. Pierce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (1993) 3.
83. 83 Zizek, op. cit., n. 46, p. 2.