Part - I: Looking Back

This ethnography of everyday policing practices in Lucknow, a major Indian metropolis, demonstrates how police authority and its assumed afflictions are refracted through a multi-dimensional field of social relationships in which power positions and moral boundaries are continually contested and shifting. This field generates among police what legal anthropologist Beatrice Jauregui calls provisional authority, a fractured and contingent form of capability and subjectivity that is not always immediately visible or comprehensible. Provisional authority may provide a social good, but with questionable and transmutable efficacy or legitimacy. Drawing on scholarship from anthropology, legal history, sociology, and political theory, Jauregui considers prevalent problems like routinized corruption, bureaucratized cronyism, evidence fabrication and extralegal violence among police as expressions of strategic adaptation and often a sincere if failing attempt to perform what officers themselves consider real police work in the face of interference, incapacity, disaffection and fragmented knowledge. This analysis of the fraught nature of police authority in India pushes contemporary theories of state power, legality and legitimacy, and postcolonialism and decolonization in different and provocative directions, opening new vistas for understanding policing as a global historical practice hybridizing local, statist, and transnational modes of producing and performing authority and order. Provisional Authority offers an innovative and challenging read of classical and contemporary theories of the postcolonial state, and an incisive perspective on public order in relation to police authority as co-configured by practice and subjectivity."

This Book Is Neither A Police Jargon , Nor A Departmental Guide. It Contains An Analytical Study Of The Attitude Of The Government, The Political Parties, The Public, The Press And Above All The Policemen Themselves In Their Efforts To Enforce Efficiently The Laws Of The Land. Apart From These Aspects, A Com¬Prehensive Account Of All The Functions Of The Police Force, Including Their Woes Have Been Given.The Rulers Have Blatantly Used The Police For The Perpetuation Of Their Rule. In This Democratic Country The People Have To Decide Whether They Should Allow The Police Force To Drift Haphazardly From One Policy To Another, Or To Allow Expediency Overcome Principles, When The Police Service Is Capable Enough To Sustain Or Destroy The Well-Being And Happiness Of The Community. And In This Context To Whom The Police Should Be Accountable?

Revised version of papers presented at a conference held at New Delhi during 9-11 February 2004.

In a democratic society, police are expected to be accountable to the people they serve, upholding the rights of citizens and following due process. In India, however, political pressure in the competitive electoral arena forces the police to adopt questionable means and dubious strategies. As a hierarchical bureaucratic organization, disciplined i

Policing The Police May Be A Strange Concept For The Police - But Is Necessary To Police The Society In Indian Democracy Today. Policing The Police With People S Participation Is A New Concept Of Recent Origin And The Book Deals With The Lack Of Policing In Police Down The Centuries. The British Created An Oppressive And Repressive Police To Retain Their Imperialism. The Police Committed Crimes With Abandon And The British Legacy Continued Even After India Became Independent. The Politicians Exploited The Police And Abused Police Muscles To Achieve Political Advantages For Them. The Police Misused Their Power And Authority To Serve Their Self Interests. Owing To The Lack Of Policing With The Police, People Developed A Negative, Avoiding And Hostile Attitude To Police Service. The Antiquated Police Act-1861 Did Not Envisage Any Healthy Human Contact Between The Police And The Citizenry. The Same Situation Continues Even After 50 Long Years To Policing The Democracy. The Book Treats Extensively All These Aspects And Many More For Policing The Police For The Third Millennium. Lawless Law Enforcement Is Condemned And The Book Will Interest Police Officials, Policy-Makers, Administrators, Academicians, Jurists, Lawyers, Politicians, Students Of Criminology, Administration Of Justice, Political Science, Sociology And Public Administration. Contents Chapter 1: Policing A Society; Why To Police The Society And Police?, Retribution: Policing Society And Police, Physician: Cure Thyself First: Justifications For Lack Of Policing In Police, Scales To Decide The Lack Of Policing In Police, Disparity Intreatment And Policing The Police, Social Justice And Policing The Police, Police Is What The Police De Here And Now; Chapter 2: Politicization Of Police And Authority; Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?, Police And Political Interference, Police Approach And Susceptibility To Political Interference, Political Surveillance And Lack Of Policing, Police Association, Politicization And Policing, Political Patronage And Policing; Chapter 3: Political Powers And Police Expowerment; Attact On Politicized Police Force, Individual Policeman, Individual Politician And Police-Politician Nexus, Policing The Politicians And Politicizing The Police, Politicization In Police, A Study, Police-Politician Relations, Political Powers And Police Empowerment; Chapter 4: Susceptibility And Policing The Police; Susceptibility To Torture, Inhuman And Degrading Treatment, Susceptibility To Aggression And Cruelty, Susceptibility To Corruption And Corrupt Practices, Susceptibility To Women And Liquor, Susceptibility To Political Whims, Susceptibility To Human Rights Unfriendly Approaches, Susceptibility To Miscarriage Of Justice, Susceptibility To Public Demands, Susceptibility To Animal Instincts In Man, Susceptibility To British-Indian Police Values, A Criminologist S Reflections On Indian Police; Chapter 5: Police Discipline And Policing; Adverse Effect Of Disciplinary Penalties On Lower Level Functionaries, Total Person And Policing The Police, Discipline And Policing, Misconceived Ideas Of Civil Police Discipline, Soldier Discipline And Civil Police Discipline, Hierarchy Control Of Police Discipline, Discipline, Police Discipline, People S Discipline And Politicians Discipline, Correct Policing The Police, Policing And Deterrent Approaches; Chapter 6: Police Functions And Policing The Police; Functions Of Police Today And Policing, Police Functions, Policing And Justice System, Police Functions, Democracy And Policing, Police Functions, Social Legislation And Policing; Chapter 7: Police Praxis And Policing The Police; Madras Police Act- 1859 And Police Praxes, Law In Principle And Law In Practice, Human Rights And Policing The Police, Police Praxis And Political Influence, Police Praxis After Independence, Petty Ego, Ego Projections, Power, Pseudo-Authority And Policing, Policing Praxes During The Third Millennium. Chapter 8: Police Power, Philosophy And Policing The Police; Police Power, Authority And Policing, British Regime And Police Atrocities, Laws, Power And Policing, Demands Of The Immediate Situation During Law And Order Management, Use Of Violence To Coerce Respect, Sanctions Against Non-Police Strategies, Non-Police Ways: The Best Way To Solve Issues And Problems, Police Methods And Non-Police Methods, Police Powers And Limitations, Police Power And Money Power, Police And Prevention Of Crimes, Police Work: A Dirty Work? Chapter 9: Leadership And Policing The Police; Formative Periods And Shaping Of Police Personality, The Self And Other In Policing The Police, Group Affiliations, Self Concept And Policing The Police, Status Feelings And Policing, A Kerala Study, Communication, Leadership And Policing, Group Processes And Policing The Police, Policing The Police With People S Participation, Group Cohesiveness And Policing The Police, Group Climate And Policing The Police, Task Orientation And Policing The Police, Leadership And Policing The Police, Director General Of Police And Policing The Police; Chapter 10: Policing The Police For The Third Millennium; Positive And Negative Attitudes Of People To Police Or Vice Versa, Propinquity Factors In Face-To-Face Relationship Between Police And People, Enforced Propinquity With People, Sum Glasses And Police-Citizen Interaction, Prejudices And Attraction, Desire And Motivation, Police And People Complementary To Each Other, Attitudes And Democratic Values, Passive Contacts With Police And Police-Citizen Relation, A Millennium Countermove, If Behaviour Is O K, Everything In O K.