Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. anupama rao and steven pierce Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial Exception 1
5. Defining and Defiling the Criminal Body at the Cape of Good Hope: Punishing the Crime of Suicide under Dutch East India Company Rule, circa 1652–1795 36
6. The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana 61
7. ‘‘Sinful Propensities’’: Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval Reform, 1770–1870 90
8. The Raj’s Other Great Game: Policing the Sexual Frontiers of the Indian Army in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 115
9. Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India 151
10. Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria 186
11. Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 215
12. An Economy of Su√ering: Addressing the Violence of Discipline in Railway Workers’ Petitions to the Agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930–47 243
13. Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria 273
14. Selections from Castaway 303
15. Bibliography 317
16. Contributors 347
17. Index 349