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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Chakrabarti, Sumit (1975-....)
Titre(s) : The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the nineteenth century [Texte imprimé] : life, labour, latitude / Sumit Chakrabarti
Publication : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix, 182 pages) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 173-178 and index
"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 these two disparate
but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the
clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani
became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses
the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and
offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of
knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk
manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural
identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses
on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit
and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the
networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students
and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city
studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies,
particularly those interested in colonial Bengal"
Sujet(s) : Employés de bureau -- Londres (GB) -- 19e siècle
Employés de bureau -- Calcutta (Inde) -- 19e siècle
Conditions sociales -- Londres (GB) -- 19e siècle
Conditions sociales -- Calcutta (Inde) -- 19e siècle
Genre ou forme : Études comparatives
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367145729. - ISBN 0367145723. - ISBN 9781003094692 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000193688
(erroné) (ePub ebook). - ISBN 9781000193602 (erroné) (PDF ebook). - ISBN 9781000193640
(erroné) (Mobipocket ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468269210
Notice n° :
FRBNF46826921
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
