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Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal
Author
Sumanta Banerjee
Specifications
  • ISBN 13 : 9780857426154
  • year : 2019
  • language : English
  • binding : Softcover
Description
Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee also makes impressive use of both standard archival records and a surprisingly substantial body of writing by prostitutes themselves, including voices often cast out of the historical record.