Chandak Sengoopta (53 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. A fascinating account of the invention of fingerprinting in colonial India and the story of how the technique was exported back to Victorian England.Opening with the first case in a British criminal court to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting to identify the perpetrators of crime in 1902 this riveting book takes us back to the origins of fingerprinting in India. Despite many books on the subject of fingerprints in general, none have looked closely at the fact that this standard tool of forensic science was born in India during the Raj. As the author points out, with the exception of curry there is not one other instance of something so fundamental to British life being imported fully-formed from the Empire and then being tailored to fit conditions at home. Based on original and hitherto unpublished research Imprint of the Raj gives a unique insight into our colonial past and offers a vivid account of this extraordinary and largely ignored story.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A fascinating account of the invention of fingerprinting in colonial India and the story of how the technique was exported back to Victorian England.Opening with the first case in a British criminal court to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting to identify the perpetrators of crime in 1902 this riveting book takes us back to the origins of fingerprinting in India. Despite many books on the subject of fingerprints in general, none have looked closely at the fact that this standard tool of forensic science was born in India during the Raj. As the author points out, with the exception of curry there is not one other instance of something so fundamental to British life being imported fully-formed from the Empire and then being tailored to fit conditions at home. Based on original and hitherto unpublished research Imprint of the Raj gives a unique insight into our colonial past and offers a vivid account of this extraordinary and largely ignored story.…

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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.K. Edition. xv, 234pp w index. Red cloths w crisp gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound Cartographic illustrated DJ clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Small octavo.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. xv, 234pp, b/w ills, appendix: the classification of fingerprints, from Galton to Henry, index. Or red cl boards in dust-jacket. 'Opening with the first case in British legal court history to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting, Imprint of the Raj explores the remarkable origins of this standard tool of forensic science in colonial India and shows how it transformed British life at the beginning of the 20th century.' Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xv + 234pp, illustrated, hardcover, bound in red paper coloured boards, gilt lettered, dust jacket very good condition and unclipped, book in very good condition, Macmillan, London, 2003. * the birth of finger printing techniques. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).…

Condition: New. pp. 426.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 234 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xv + 234pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Remainder mark bottom edge, otherwise without flaw. For almost a century fingerprinting was the ultimate form of identification and is still the cheapest and most widley used: the patterns on our fingertips are our true, lasting and unchangeable signatures. Few of us know, however, where and how this was discovered. In this fascinating footnote to history, Chandak Sengoopra tells the extraordinary story of how the first fingerprint identification system was developed in the 1860s in distant, dusty Bengal by Sir William James Herschel, a middle-ranking colonial administrator. This book also gives us a unique and vivid insight into the colonial past and helps us to gain clearer, fuller and richer insights into the ways in which Britain's imperial adventure transformed the lives not simply of the colonized but of the colonizers themselves.…

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. - 222 mm. Red cloth hardcover, gilt titling to spine. Illustrated. B&W photographs. Figures. Diagrams. Pp. xv, 234. Underlining in pencil between pp. 43 - 55. Edge wear and rubbing to DJ including long faint diagonal crease to front panel. Overall, VG / G+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Na Viden z prelomu stoleti se vzpomina jako na esteticky, eroticky a intelektualni svet: na rodiste Freuda a psychoanalyzy, valciku a Schnitzlerovych romanu. Jednotlive kontexty teto kulturni vitality, tvrdi Chandak Sengoopta, byly ovsem mnohem temnejsi a komplexnejsi, nez si dokazeme predstavit. Tato provokativni, poucna studie zkouma prostredi, v jakem filosof Otto Weininger (1880-1903) psal svou kontroverzni knihu Geschlecht und Charakter (Pohlavi a charakter). Kratce po jejim vydani, ve veku dvaceti tri let, spachal Weininger sebevrazdu. Jeho kniha, kde prohlasuje, ze zeny a Zide jsou pouze sexualni bytosti, kteri postradaji individualitu, se stala bestselerem. Weininger, oslavovany jako genius intelektualy jako Ludwig Wittgenstein a Karl Kraus, byl obdivovan nikoliv pro sve predsudky, nybrz proto, ze se zaobiral hlavnimi problemy sve doby - podstatou a vyznamem identity. Sengoopta venuje zvlastni pozornost tomu, jak si Weininger privlastnil vedecky jazyk a udaje, aby definoval sve nazory, a jak zkouma samotne vedecke teorie.…