Public finance and personal law in late-colonial India
(2017)
Book Chapter
Newbigin, E. (2017). Public finance and personal law in late-colonial India. In A. Balachandran, R. Pant, & B. Raman (Eds.), Iterations of Law: Legal Histories from India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477791.003.0010
This chapter considers the ways in which the fiscal demands of representative government, and specifically the development of a direct, personal income tax, impacted legal subjecthood during India’s transition to Independence. It shows how early twen... Read More about Public finance and personal law in late-colonial India.