Nilanjana S Roy: Empire's outdated laws

An empire and a company ruling by force needed sedition to prop up its iniquitous regime. A free country doesn't

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July is a humid month in Calcutta (now, Kolkata), and it was sweltering in the Calcutta Supreme Court when Reverend James Long was indicted “for the publication of various libels in a pamphlet known as the Nil-Durpan”. As the publisher of Dinabandhu Mitra’s play, Long, an Irish Anglican priest, was fined and briefly jailed in July 1861 — Babu Kaliprasanna Singha paid his fine. But the trial was ferociously argued, laying bare the growing fears of the British government over the growth of what might be called disaffection among their native subjects. Long was ...

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Nilanjana S Roy: Empire's outdated laws