ABSTRACT
South Asian legal historiography portrays that in comparison to the Western world, the initiation of criminology took place in a different manner in South Asia. Here, British imperialism created a drift between the colonizer and the colonized, and also played a momentous role in the transformation of the criminal justice system. Tradition always plays an important role in all spheres of life in India. As a consequence, law and administration was also governed by moral right and responsibility. The present discourse, The History of Forensic Science in India, interlaces both ancient ways of crime identification and colonial perception of crime and crime governance in a remarkable way. However, the cataclysmic effect of the 1857 rebellion made a paradigm shift, so far as crime governance in British India was concerned. Starting from thuggee or dacoity to initiation of the criminal intelligence bureau, in all bubbles of crime governance, British rulers established their scientific supremacy. After independence, the Government of India proficiently placed forensic science both in the academic and the administrative arena. In the present century, “forensic science” has become the fastest growing section of global science which provides justice to the teeming millions so far as global crime is concerned.
