The Making of a 'Terrorist'

In 1924 the British Raj used laws that are almost a mirror image of the anti-terrorism legislation recently passed by the British Parliament to detain suspects without charge. The ‘lawless laws’, as an Indian politician called them, were used against ‘revolutionists’, the word the Raj used for men plotting the violent overthrow of British rule in India. They show how a government that feels itself threatened by violence will act against its political enemies.