BORA CMI: The Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India

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Title:	The Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India
Authors:	Chatterjee, Ratnabali
Keywords:	Women Prostitution Colonialism India
Issue Date:	1992
Publisher:	Chr. Michelsen Institute. Department of Social Science and Development
Series/Report no.:	CMI Report R 1992: 8
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.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10202/380
ISSN:	0803-0030
Appears in Collections:	CMI Collection (Reports, Working Papers, Articles etc.)

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