Wicked City: Crime And Punishment In Colonial Calcutta by Sumanta Banerjee

Wicked City: Crime And Punishment In Colonial Calcutta

Sumanta Banerjee

656 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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This 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 T...

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