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(The) wicked city crime and punishment in colonial Calcutta
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| Language: | English |
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New Delhi
Orient BlackSwan Private Limited
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Hatching the plot: exploring the social history of crime, The trailblazers, Calcutta's white underworld, Journeys through the lower depth, Killers: violent and silent, House-breakers , thieves and pilferersSwindlers and forgers, Emblezzlers and gamblers, Smugglers, Drug pushers and piosoners, Underworld heroines and their children, Smashing the plot: punishing, discipline and ordering, Rise and growth of the police, Subalterns of the Calcutta Police, Jail: the meeting ground of criminology and Penology