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The Wicked City: Crime And Punishment In Colonial Calcutta (Hb)

by Sumanta Banerjee

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  Jal, juochuri, mithye katha / Ei tin niye Kolikata (Forgery, swindling and falsehood: these three make up Calcutta.)”A popular couplet from early-eighteenth-century Calcutta.
This elegant, impeccably researched and wide-ranging work of social history is a riveting journey into the underworld of colonial Calcutta.

From dusty official files to half-forgotten popular literature of a dark past, The Wicked City unravels a fascinating panorama of crime in the colonial metropolis over two centuries. It begins in the eighteenth century with the plots of bribery and murderous vendetta hatched in Governor Warren Hastings` office in the White Town”the tiny European part of the city. The story then moves into the dingy backstreets of the Black Town”the vast, sprawling Bengali habitation”and offers a glimpse into the world of indigenous dacoits. As the eighteenth century flickers out, a new century sees the dawn of new types of crimes like counterfeiting, even as the technology used in old forms of crime like burglary, becomes increasingly more sophisticated.

In this onward march of crime in the course of Calcutta`s rise from fledgling town to giant metropolis, a procession of colourful characters emerged and thrived in all their diabolic grandeur. With all their imagination and creative devices, they elevated crime to the status of art.

After immersing itself in the world of criminals, the book shifts its gaze towards the apparatus built by the colonial rulers to deal with them. In doing so, what clearly emerges is the symbiotic relationship between urban crimes”spawned by the colonial ethic of acquisitiveness and aggressive pursuit of self-interest”and the new laws and modes of punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to control those crimes.

ISBN :9788125037491
 


Pages : 656
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