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The Frontier Crimes Regulation and Frontier Governmentality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2015

Benjamin D. Hopkins
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From the invention of imperial authority along the North-West Frontier of British India, subjects were divided between the “civilized” inhabitants populating the cultivated plains and the “wild tribes” living in the hills. The problem of governing this latter group, the “independent tribes,” proved a vexed one for the British Raj. The mechanism developed by imperial administrators to manage the frontier inhabitants was the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), first promulgated in 1872 and still in effect today. The FCR was designed to exclude the Frontier's inhabitants from the colonial judiciary, and more broadly the colonial sphere, encapsulating them in their own colonially sanctioned “tradition.” Exploring the use of the FCR as an instrument of governance from its first inception into the twentieth century, this article argues that it was key to shaping the nature of frontier rule, which in turn shaped the very nature of the colonial state itself.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , May 2015 , pp. 369 - 389
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The Baluchistan Code. 1890. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.Google Scholar
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International Crisis Group. 2006. Pakistan's Tribal Areas: Appeasing the Militants. Crisis Group Asia Report no. 125. Islamabad/Brussels: International Crisis Group. http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-asia/pakistan/125_pakistans_tribal_areas___appeasing_the_militants.pdf (accessed January 20, 2015).Google Scholar
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Rattigan, H. A. B. 1903. “Regulation No. III of 1901: The Frontier Crimes Regulation.” In The Bengal Regulations, the Acts of the Governor-General in Council, and the Frontier Regulations, Made Under the Thirty-third of Victoria, Chapter Three, Applicable to the Punjab with Notes and an Index: Vol. IV Containing India Acts from 1896 to 1902, Punjab Acts from 1898 to 1902 and Frontier Regulations 1901, 559–77. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press.Google Scholar
Robb, Peter. 1997. “The Colonial State and Constructions of Indian Identity: An Example of the Northeast Frontier in the 1880s.” Modern Asian Studies 31(2):245–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rumi, Raza Ahmad. 2012. “Pakistan: Ungoverned Spaces.” CIDOB Policy Research Papers, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Barcelona. http://www.cidob.org/en/publications/stap_rp/policy_research_papers/pakistan_ungoverned_spaces (accessed January 22, 2015).Google Scholar
Scott, James C. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Sherman, Taylor C. 2010. State Violence and Punishment in India. London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sikdar, Sudatta. 1982. “Tribalism vs. Colonialism: British Capitalistic Intervention and Transformation of Primitive Economy of Arunachal Pradesh in the Nineteenth Century.” Social Scientist 10(12):15–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sinha, Mrinalini. 1995. Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Google Scholar
Skaria, Ajay. 1997. “Shades of Wildness: Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India.” Journal of Asian Studies 56(3):726–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sokefeld, Martin. 2005. “From Colonialism to Postcolonial Colonialism: Changing Modes of Domination in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.” Journal of Asian Studies 64(4):939–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stoler, Ann Laura. 2006. “On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty.” Public Culture 18(1):125–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Talbot, Ian. 1991. “British Rule in the Punjab, 1849-1947: Characteristics and Consequences.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 19(2):203–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tanguay-Renaud, Francois. 2002. “Post-colonial Pluralism, Human Rights and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.” Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 6:541–96.Google Scholar
Titus, Paul. 1998. “Honor the Baloch, Buy the Pushtun: Stereotypes, Social Organization and History in Western Pakistan.” Modern Asian Studies 32(3):657–87.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vail, Leroy. 1989. “Introduction: Ethnicity in Southern African History.” In The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa, ed. Vail, Leroy, 1–20. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Xaxa, Virginius. 1999. “Transformation of Tribes in India: Terms of Discourse.” Economic and Political Weekly 34(24):1519–24.Google Scholar
Yang, Anand. 1985. “Dangerous Castes and Tribes: The Criminal Tribes Act and the Magahiya Doms of Northeast India.” In Crime and Criminality in British India, ed. Yang, Anand, 108–27. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.Google Scholar