Drawing upon the court case of one woman sentenced for killing her infant in the early decades of the last century, this article reads Pierre Bourdieu’s insight on how the trial stages conflicts produced in the social realm as a paradox for explaining how British administrators and Indian village officials negotiated non-conflicting codes of sexual and moral conduct on the basis of colonial ideology and locally fixed caste hierarchies to convict women of infanticide. This article argues that a staging of women’s agency is crucial for understanding the colonial conferral of legal subjectivity and for a gendered critique of the Subaltern Studies paradigm of conflict or collaboration as ‘dominance without hegemony.’

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“我的话没有得到重视”：印度殖民后期的习惯法、犯罪和“女性问题”

本文以上世纪初期一名妇女因杀害婴儿而被判刑的法庭案件为基础，阅读皮埃尔·布尔迪厄 (Pierre Bourdieu) 对审判阶段冲突如何在社会领域产生的见解作为一个悖论来解释英国行政人员和印度村庄如何官员们根据殖民意识形态和当地固定的种姓等级制度，商定了不冲突的性行为和道德行为准则，以判定杀害婴儿的妇女。本文认为，女性能动性的阶段对于理解法律主体性的殖民授予以及将冲突或合作的底层研究范式作为“没有霸权的统治”进行性别批判至关重要。