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Prof. Alastair McClure (Hong Kong) joins Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) to discuss his first monograph, Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Terror and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Their conversation covers state violence, coercive mercy, and Indian national politics under the British Raj.

A specialist in South Asian legal history, Prof. McClure is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Hong Kong.

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Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Photo Credit: “Indian boy scouts awaiting the arrival of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (the great advocate of Home Rule for India) in the Central Station compound in Madras, 1917,” Image: IWM (Q 110944), via IWM.

The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”