dc.contributor.author | Chatterjee, Ratnabali | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-03-13T08:33:51Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-29T09:12:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-03-13T08:33:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-29T09:12:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0803-0030 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2435741 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Chr. Michelsen Institute. Department of Social Science and Development | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research report | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | R 1992: 8 | |
dc.subject | Women | |
dc.subject | Prostitution | |
dc.subject | Colonialism | |
dc.subject | India | |
dc.title | The Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India | |
dc.type | Research report | |