(The) Wicked city : crime and punishment in colonial Calcutta / by Sumanta Banerjee
By: Banerjee, Sumanta [Author].
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan Pvt. Ltd., 2009.Description: ix, 643p.: ill.; 22.5 cm.ISBN: 9788125037491.Subject(s): History -- India -- Bengal | HistoryDDC classification: 954.14Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliography and index.
PART I: HATCHING THE PLOT: EXPLORING THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CRIME: The trailblazers -- Calcutta's white underworld -- Journeys through the lower depths -- Killers: violent and silent -- House-breakers, thieves and pilferers -- Swindlers and forgers -- Embezzlers and gamblers -- Smugglers, drug-pushers and poisoners -- Underworld heroines and their children -- The contest over public space -- PART II: SMASHING THE PLOT: PUNISHING, DISCIPLINING AND ORDERING: The beginnings -- Rise and growth of the police -- Subalterns of the Calcutta Police -- Arrival of the Bengali sleuth -- The web of criminal prosecution -- Jail: the meeting ground of criminology and penology -- Concluding reflections
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