The Parlour and the Streets
The Parlour and the Streets analyses the development of the various forms of folk culture of the the urban poor in the new metropolis of nineteenth-century Calcutta. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans and craftsmen who migrated from the neighbouring villages, the ‘lower orders’ of Calcutta evolved a new urban folk culture from their own older rural inheritance.
Citing numerous examples of contemporary street songs and popular performing arts, the book traces the beginnings of tension between these urban folk-cultural forms and the new culture of the Bengali elite which was increasingly seeking to model itself on the British. The author demonstrates how this new elite, shaped by colonial powers, not only disowned a common culture that it once shared with the populace but also sought to muzzle it—a move which, at political and other leves, was to have serious consequences that are still all too apparent in contemporary Bengal.
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Publication Date: June
Size: 6" x 9"
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Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal
Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Under the Raj explores the world of the prostitute in nineteenth century Bengal. It traces how, from the peripheries of pre-colonial Bengali rural society, they came to dominate the center-stage in Calcutta, the capital of British India--thanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order.
Sumanta Banerjee examines the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, as well as to screen its practitioners in a bid to protect its minions in the army from venereal diseases. He also analyzes the class structure within the prostitute community in nineteenth century Bengal, its complex relationship with the Bengali bhadralok society--and, what is more important and fascinating for modern researchers in popular culture--the voices of the prostitutes themselves, which we hear from their songs, letters, and writings, collected and reproduced from both oral tradition and printed sources.
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Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal
Under the Raj explores the world of the prostitute, seeking to understand the culture of the trade and its impact on society, in the changing reality of nineteenth century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee outlines the class structure that emerged within the profession, examines popular perceptions of prostitution and analyzes the complex relationship between the newly educated Bengali bhadralok society and the prostitute community. Banerjee gives voice to the prostitutes themselves, from which we hear their songs, letters, and writings, collected and reproduced from both oral tradition and printed sources. | more…
Sumanta Banerjee
Victims and Villains: The Construction of Female Criminality in Colonial Calcutta
Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India,
The concept of crime was undergoing a change in 18 th th century Calcutta under British rule more The concept of crime was undergoing a change in 18 th th century Calcutta under British rule. Certain pre-colonial social practices and customs (e.g. prostitution, street performance of folk culture, etc.) were designated as crime by the colonial administrators according to the norms of morality that were prevalent in contemporary England. The drive for rapid urbanization of a pre-industrial society by a colonial power also led to socio-economic tensions that gave birth to new types of crimes. In this new framework of criminality, women came to occupy a major domain. The colonial authorities, under the influence of the contemporary theories of criminology in their homeland, pigeonholed certain acts of law-breaking as `female crimes' -a special category of crime, supposedly peculiar to women only. But this was a travesty of truth. There were crimes shared by both men and womenwhether theft or mur
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