It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century by Sumit Chakrabarti
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This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses...
The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century by Sumit Chakrabarti is 182 pages long, and a total of 45,864 words.
This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century aloud.
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