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The Wicked City

লেখক / Author: Sumanta Banerjee

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Présentation de l'éditeur : "From dusty official files to the half forgotten popular literature of a dark past The Wicked City unravels a fascinating panorama of crime in the colonial metropolis of Calcutta over two centuries. It begins in the eighteenth century with the plots of bribery and murderous vendetta hatched in Governor Warren Hastings office in the White Town the tiny European part of the city. The story then moves into the dingy back streets of the Black Town the vast sprawling Bengali habitation and offers a glimpse into the world of indigenous dacoits. As the eighteenth century flickers out a new century sees the dawn of new types of crimes like counterfeiting even as the technology used in old forms of crime like burglary becomes increasingly more sophisticated. In this…

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Pages: 650

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9788125037491

ISBN-10: 8125037497