Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History

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Karatoya: North Bengal University Journal of History publishes research ARTICLES and SHORT NOTES in English on History and its allied sub-disciplines and is published annually. It considers original research articles based on interpretation of freshly retrieved information or re-interpretation of existing database on the subjects. Review articles based on critical assessment of published database on specific themes are also accepted. Karatoya is a refereed and peer reviewed journal, published annually by the Department of History, North Bengal University. This is also an UGC approved journal of Arts and Humanities with serial No. 42512.

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Author: search.filters.author.Bhattacharya, DahliaSubject: search.filters.subject.Darjeeling

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    Crime, Criminality and Punishment in Colonial Darjeeling District
    (University of North Bengal, 2017-03) Bhattacharya, Dahlia
    Crime is behaviour against the rules of the society by which it achieves the status of crime and individual is treated as criminal. In the pre-colonial period the concept of crime and criminality existed in an elaborate form in texts and scriptures. But the legal perception of crime and criminality in the British period is essentially a colonial construction. They adopted a new method of identifying crime and criminality and of punishment in colonial India. In this article the crimes and criminality in Darjeeling and the methods of imprisonment is highlighted.