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Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.

English fiction --- Justice, Administration of --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Law and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain. --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Law and legislation --- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Great Britain) --- Court of Appeals from the Plantations (Great Britain) --- JCPC --- Caribbean Court of Justice