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the Calcutta Kerani and London Clerk Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude

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the Calcutta Kerani and London Clerk Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude
the Calcutta Kerani and London Clerk Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude

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the Calcutta Kerani and London Clerk Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude

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The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.

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