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Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"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 nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...
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£25,00
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End of Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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£7,00
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm
In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...
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£22,00
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Colonial Staged Theatre In Colonial Calcutta
ISBN: PB: 9781905422449, Seagull Books, October 2007
344 pp., 23x15.6 cm
From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of...
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£22,50
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Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones
"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...
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£79,00
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