The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367556631 / Miękka / 2023 / 182 str.

Presidency Univer Sumit (Professor in Department of English

Opis

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-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in the two spaces.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Tracing a Genealogy 1. The Social and Cultural Location of the Kerani within the Empire 2. The Clerk in British India: A Short Survey of the Life of the Calcutta Kerani 3. The Life and Times of the London Clerk: Necessary Perspectives 4. The Sahib Writer in Calcutta: A Different Discourse 5. From Manuals to Manifestos: Discipline and Agency 6. Writing Clerks, Clerks Writing: Representations in Literature 7. The Significant Omission: The Woman Clerk. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India.