#Coloniallaw

@ten10visuals.bsky.social

1 month ago

Ep:28/30 They Legally Claimed Widows' Property When Rulers Died | Estate Theft | The UNSPOKEN Trace™ YouTube video by Ten10 Visuals Network™

When Indian rulers ☠️, the #EastIndiaCompany
• Claimed authority over widows' estates and so much more!
#Coloniallaw Stripped those rights
Legal theft from grieving women.
#History #BritishEmpire #LegalTheft #India #GenderHistory #InheritanceRights

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dehypotheses

@dehypotheses.bsky.social

5 months ago

Court Cases as Epistemology: Reconstructing African History through Legal Archives Sauda Nabukenya - Can court records be more than legal sources – can they serve as epistemological workshops for reconstructing African history? This essay argues that they can, drawing on more than 150,000 case files I discovered, organized, and catalogued from Buganda’s native courts and the High Court of Uganda.

Court records in #Buganda’s native courts were not just legal documents — they were sites of knowledge-making. Sauda Nabukenya shows how truth, justice, & social order were negotiated through testimony & community.

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#AfricanHistory #LegalArchives #ColonialLaw #SocialJustice