ISBN-13: 9780367145729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.
ISBN-13: 9780367145729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.
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.