Dangerous Outcast

The Prostitute in Ninteenth Century Calcutta

Sumanta Banerjee

Out of Print

 

6 x 8.75 inches, 235pp. 2000

ISBN : 9788170461197

Rs  450.00 (HB)
$25.95 (HB)
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Dangerous Outcast explores the world of the prostitute in 19th century Bengal. It traces how, from the peripheries of precolonial rural society, they came to dominate the centre-stage of Calcutta, the capital of British India. 

Sumanta Banerjee is an historian, journalist and cultural theorist. He has been a leading public intellectual for many decades and has earlier 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.

 

Women's Studies
Culture Studies
Cultural History
Colonial Studies