The DOI matches its Crossref record.
A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India
Abstract
Radhika Singha looks at law-making as a cultural enterprise, one in which the colonial authorities were compelled to draw upon normative codes of rank, status, and gender so as to realign them to a new, more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
An Introduction to Islamic Law
Hallaq, W. B. (2009) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511801044 · Cited by 570
Toward an anthropology of culpability
Sundar, N. (2004) · American Ethnologist · doi:10.1525/ae.2004.31.2.145 · Cited by 46
CONDOS, M., & RAND, G. (2018) · The Historical Journal · doi:10.1017/s0018246x17000280 · Cited by 11
Metadata
- Authors
- Rocher, L., & Singha, R.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2001-10
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 667
- ISSN
- 0003-0279 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2005843484
- Cited by
- 434
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 65.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/606515
- The paper
- Rocher, L., & Singha, R. (2001). A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India. Journal of the American Oriental Society. https://doi.org/10.2307/606515
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
