Dangerous OutcastDangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of precolonial Bengali rural society, prostitutes came to dominate the centrestage in Calcutta, the capital of British Indiathanks to the emergence of a new clientele brought forth by the colonial order. While examining the policies the British administration implemented to revamp the profession to suit its needs, this volume also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the

parable on the vanity of inordinate ambition that snaps the connection between the ends and the roots

" and the influential writers and publications of that time - specifically Nietzsche and Rimbaud

and anyone interested in the visual arts and the literature and history of the twentieth century

and the voices of the prostitutes themselves

Chatterjee & Lal transformed into The Arthur Bunder Press

34 black and white illustrations

Despite these large categorical resonances

costume and makeup design

We are surrounded by images

especially in relation to communism

he decided to undertake a diary-like experiment in four parts

lay bare a meditation on foreignness