Theatre Of The Earth The Works Of Heisnam Kanhailal

Dangerous Outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenthcentury popular and folk culture Sumanta Banerjee also makes impressive use of both standard archival records and a surprisingly substantial body of writing by prostitutes themselves including voices often cast out of the historical record.