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dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, Ratnabali
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-13T08:33:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-29T09:12:05Z
dc.date.available2008-03-13T08:33:51Z
dc.date.available2017-03-29T09:12:05Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.identifier.issn0803-0030
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2435741
dc.description.abstractThe report historically traces the social construction of the Indian prostitute, which misrepresented and degraded the imagery of an accomplished courtesan and artistic entertainer to the degraded western image of a prostitute. The first part deals with the methods and motivations of the colonial government in construing Indian prostitutes as a separate and distinct group. The second part analyses the reactions and effects the colonial discourse had on indigenous elites, and ends with a presentation of the imagery surrounding the Indian prostitute in Bengali popular literature of the time.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherChr. Michelsen Institute. Department of Social Science and Development
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch report
dc.relation.ispartofseriesR 1992: 8
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectProstitution
dc.subjectColonialism
dc.subjectIndia
dc.titleThe Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India
dc.typeResearch report


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