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Dangerous Outcast : The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal

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Item Code: HAG215
Author: Sumanta Banerjee
Publisher: SEAGULL BOOKS
Language: English
Edition: 2019
ISBN: 9780857426154
Pages: 261
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 9.00 X 6.00 inch
Weight 350 gm
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Dangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of pre- colonial Bengali rural society, prostitutes came to dominate the centrestage in Calcutta, the capital of British India- thanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. While examining the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, this volume also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the time; its complex relationship with the Bengali bhadralok (that is, prosperous, well-educated) society, and the voices of the prostitutes themselves, which we hear from their songs, letters and writings, collected and reproduced from both oral tradition and printed sources Exhaustively documented, drawing upon diverse contemporary records, Dangerous Outcast is a major contribution to the research on nineteenth-century Bengal as well as women's studies.

SUMANTA BANERJEE is a historian, journalist and cultural theorist. He has been a leading public intellectual for many decades and has been a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. His most recent publications include Memoirs of Roads: Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization.

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