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Imprint of the Raj: The Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and Its Voyage to Britain
Chandak Sengoopta
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| #2932802 in Books | 2004-02-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.70 x5.10l,.38 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very good book on how fingerprinting was developed and implemented in British Empire|By E. Jaksetic|This book shows that the use of fingerprints for the identification of criminals, first implemented in the British Empire, was not simply the work of any one creative individual, but rather the product of a lengthy process involving different people -- some in British India and s|About the Author|Chandak Sengoopta is the Wellcome Research Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. Originally from Calcutta, where he trained to be a doctor, he subsequently studied the history
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 fa...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Imprint of the Raj: The Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and Its Voyage to Britain | Chandak Sengoopta. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
