• ISBN13: 9780857426154
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: INR 699.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 340 grams

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 also makes impressive use of both standard archival records and a surprisingly substantial body of writing by prostitutes themselves, including voices often cast out of the historical record.

Sumanta Banerjee is a cultural historian who specializes in research into popular culture, particularly of the colonial period. He is the author of many books, including The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta and Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal, both published by Seagull Books.