Description
Orient Publishing Company The Wicked City: Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta by Sumanta Banerjee
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Hatching the Plot: Exploring the Social History of Crime
1. The Trailblazers
2. Calcutta’s White Underworld
3. Journeys through the Lower Depths
4. Killers: Violent and Silent
5. House-breakers, Thieves and Pilferers
6. Swindlers and Forgers
7. Embezzlers and Gamblers
8. Smugglers, Drug-pushers and Poisoners
9. Underworld Heroines and their Children
10. The Contest over Public Space
Part II: Smashing the Plot: Punishing, Disciplining and Ordering
1. The Beginnings
2. Rise and Growth of the Police
3. Subalterns of the Calcutta Police
4. Arrival of the Bengali Sleuth
5. The Web of Criminal Prosecution
6. Jail: The Meeting Ground of Criminology and Penology
Concluding Reflections
Select Bibliography
Index