True Crime Writings in Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9780367540999 / Miękka / 2023 / 198 str.

Shampa Roy

Opis

This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ which had an avid genteel readership. It focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Detective Inspectors in mid-late 19th century colonised Bengal. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Bakaullah’s Preface 3. Handless Harish 4. A Can of Worms 5. Ray Mahashay 6. What’s This! A Murder? 7. The Aerial Corpse 8. A Severed Head 9. Girijasundari 10. Promoda 11. Why! What’s This? 12. Imprudence

O autorze

Shampa Roy is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Miranda House, Delhi, India. Her recent publications include Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (2017); In Zenanas and Beyond: Representations of Indian Women in BritishColonial Texts, 1800-1935 (2011); “Bad” Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (co-edited with Saswati Sengupta and Sharmila Purkayastha, 2019). Dr Roy’s articles on topics ranging from Victorian memsahibs’ writings to postcolonial pedagogy have appeared in international journals like Feminist Review, Interventions, and Studies in Travel Writing. Her areas of research interest include nineteenth century and early twentieth century English novel, popular literature, crime fiction (in English, translations into English as well as Bangla).