TY - BOOK ID - 117755022 TI - Disaffected : emotion, sedition, and colonial law in the Anglosphere PY - 2021 SN - 9781501753909 1501753908 9781501753893 1501753894 1501753886 1501753878 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political alienation KW - Sedition KW - Politics and culture KW - Censorship KW - Book censorship KW - Books KW - Literature KW - Literature and morals KW - Anticensorship activists KW - Challenged books KW - Expurgated books KW - Intellectual freedom KW - Prohibited books KW - Culture KW - Culture and politics KW - Freedom of speech KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Subversive activities KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Political psychology KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Political aspects KW - Indian penal code, Imperial Law, Affect and empire, Censorship and empire, Law and literature. KW - Section124a. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117755022 AB - 'Disaffected' examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term 'disaffection' to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a, which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public. ER -