Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Sumanta Banerjee

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Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Sumanta Banerjee

256 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction history psychology science sociology medium-paced
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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. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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