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- Title: Exporting Time Immemorial: Writing Land Law Reform in India and Ireland.
- Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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In this article I trace out a new attention to native custom manifested in writing on both Indian and Irish land law in the 1860s and 1870s. During this time, land reformers treat India and Ireland as occupying a stage of legal development prior to Victorian English law, one in which native custom regulates the distribution of land better than could modern legislation from one clearly defined center of authority. While the idea of colonized zones as constituting earlier stages of civilization was hardly a new one, I argue that this legal trend, in effect, exported to the colonies the legitimizing power of time immemorial, from which England saw its own constitution and common law emerging. By calling attention to the power of immemorial custom in India and Ireland, England styles itself as the civilization whose superior progress can be measured by contrast with the primitive cultures over which it ruled. Yet England's own identity as a nation shaped by history beyond the reach of memory complicates this position of superiority, making the difference between England and its subordinate zones less apparent **********
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