Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Memon on Caste in British International Legal Thought

Ahmed Memon, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, has published, open access, “English in taste, Indian in blood”: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought, in the London Review of International Law:

In this article, I argue that caste was a central factor in the development of British international legal thought in the subcontinent. Specifically, I contend that British international legal thought entrenched caste hegemony into the broader racial civilisation hierarchy of international law in the nineteenth century.

Dan Ernst