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24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. The town started to live up as Wajid Alt Shah released from custody returned to his old haunts.' Kaliprasanna Sinha, Hutum Pachar, p. 143.
27. Brajendranath Bandopadhyay, Sambad Patre Sekaler Katha, Vol. 11 (Calcutta: Bangiye Sahitya Parishad, B.S. 1339), p. 121. (Translation from Bengali by Ratnabali Chatterjee).
28. Baltzard F. Solyyns, Les Hindous. Vol. 1 (Paris 1810); S.C. Belnos, Twenty four plates illustrative of Hindu and European manners in Bengal Drawn on Stone by A Colin from sketches by Mrs. Belnos. (London: 1832)
29. Sumanta Banerjee, 'Marginalisation of Women's Popular Culture in Bengal* in Recasting Women, pp. 135-136.
30. WBSA (West Bengal State Archives) Jud. Oct.1872.. From Babu Tara Prasad Chatterjee, Deputy Magistrate Jungipur, to the Commissioner, Rajsahi Division, dated 22nd May 1872.
31. Sumanta Banerjee, 'Marginalisation', pp. 134--135.
32. WBSA Judicial letter No. 149/27. To the Magistrate of Murshidabad from Baboo Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Dy. Magistrate. The reporter is none other than the celebrated author Bankim who here reveals little sympathy for vaisnavis.
33. Sumit Sarkar, 'Kaiki Avatar of Bikrampur': A village scandal in Early 20th century Bengal' in Subaltern Studies IV, ed. Ranjit Guha, (Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press), also 'Kali Yugar Kalpana 0 Aupanibeshik Samaj, in Itihas Anusandhan 4, (Bengali), ed. G. Chattopadhyay (Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi, 1989); Ratnabali Chatterjee, From Karkhana to the Studio, (New Delhi: Books and Books, 1990), pp. 68-69.
34. Sumit Sarkar, 'Kaiki Avatar'.
35. In a number of Bengali Satires 'Beshya Britti Nibritte,' 'Briddha Beshya Tapaswini,'—the woman's passage from virtue to vice is worked into a formula.
36. Anonymous, Stridiger Prati Upadesh 1874 (Bengali), translations done by Ratnabali Chatterjee.
37. Nabakumar Datta, Swarnabai (a novel in Bengali), (Calcutta, 1888.)
38. Ibid.
39. Ratnabali Chatterjee, 'The Indian Prostitute as a Colonial Subject Bengal, 1864-1883', in Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 13, Nov. 1992, No. 1, p. 51.
40. Lynda Nead, Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), p. 172.