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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

TAYLOR & FRANCIS
09 / 2020
9780367145729
978-03-6714-572-9
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Sinopse

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in the two spaces.