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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century - Life, Labour, Latitude (Hardcover)
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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century - Life, Labour, Latitude (Hardcover)
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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-a-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 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 babu 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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