1st Edition
True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
1. Introduction
2. Bakaullah’s Preface
3. Handless Harish: Horrible Homicide, Three Murders
4. A Can of Worms: A Wily Woman and the Terrible Wages of Sin
5. Ray Mahashay: A Great Conspiracy and Warring Factions
6. What’s This! A Murder? The Sensational Mystery of a Man Caught with His Stabbed Wife
7. The Aerial Corpse: A Shocking and Sensational Incident!
8. A Severed Head: The Search for Unclaimed Property
9. Girijasundari: A Woman Killed on the Capital’s Thoroughfare
10. Promoda: Havoc Wreaked by a Wife’s Illicit Liaison
11. Why! What’s This? Suicide or Homicide
12. Imprudence: The Terrible Misjudgments of a Foolish Woman
Biography
Shampa Roy is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Miranda House, Delhi, India. Her recent publications include Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (2017); In Zenanas and Beyond: Representations of Indian Women in BritishColonial Texts, 1800-1935 (2011); “Bad” Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (co-edited with Saswati Sengupta and Sharmila Purkayastha, 2019). Dr Roy’s articles on topics ranging from Victorian memsahibs’ writings to postcolonial pedagogy have appeared in international journals like Feminist Review, Interventions, and Studies in Travel Writing. Her areas of research interest include nineteenth century and early twentieth century English novel, popular literature, crime fiction (in English, translations into English as well as Bangla).
