ABSTRACT By the eve of the First World War, the world’s two most powerful imperial powers, Britain and France, had begun to work together in order to defeat the growing menace posed by transnational anti-colonial networks operating within Europe. When it came to the front lines of the anti-colonial struggle, however, Franco-British collaborative policing efforts continued to be plagued by persistent rivalries and contestations between these erstwhile enemies. This is particularly evident in the case of the French-controlled settlement of Chandernagore in India, which was one of the centres of revolutionary activity in Bengal. This article examines how Chandernagore’s unique legal and political status as a French possession enabled it to become a ‘haven’ or ‘Alsatia’ for Indian revolutionaries operating against the British colonial state. It traces how the persistence of this vestige of French sovereignty placed it at the centre of repeated conflicts between British and French colonial authorities over the detection, arrest, and extradition of these revolutionaries, revealing both the possibilities and limitations of colonial police cooperation. Far from being peripheral in nature, these conflicts cut to the heart of even more fiercely contested debates within the imperial metropole about the relationship between national sovereignty and international law in an increasingly global age.

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印度“阿尔萨斯”：主权、引渡和法英殖民治安的局限

摘要到第一次世界大战前夕，世界上最强大的两个帝国强权英国和法国开始合作，以击败在欧洲运作的跨国反殖民网络构成的日益增长的威胁。然而，当涉及到反殖民斗争的前线时，法英合作警务工作继续受到这些昔日敌人之间持续存在的对抗和争论的困扰。这在法国控制的印度昌德纳戈尔定居点的情况下尤为明显，该定居点是孟加拉革命活动的中心之一。本文探讨了昌德纳戈尔作为法国属地的独特法律和政治地位如何使其成为反对英国殖民国家的印度革命者的“避风港”或“阿尔萨斯”。它追溯了这种法国主权的持续存在如何使其成为英法殖民当局在侦查、逮捕和引渡这些革命者方面反复冲突的中心，揭示了殖民警察合作的可能性和局限性。在日益全球化的时代，这些冲突远非无关紧要，而是成为帝都内部关于国家主权与国际法之间关系的更激烈争论的核心。