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

by Sumit Chakrabarti

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- -vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces.

The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367145723
• ISBN13: 9780367145729
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"