Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Author : Sumanta Banerjee

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 17 September 2019

ISBN : 9780857426154

Price : €29.25

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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.

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.

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