The second city of the Empire was ever growing, more and more people were moving into it for opportunities not only from overseas but from the neighbouring villages too. When nothing worked, they resorted to petty crimes, pick pocketing, pimping and conning the gullible.
The reason could be multiple for women to not speak up. Most are frightened, because the judgement is severe, if she fails. The truth that stares back at us, is that very few women can actually confide.
The ‘Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan’ mentions a civil servant called Ramgati Bandyopadhyay who worked with Herschel in Hooghly for the collection of fingerprints, but Herschel does not mention him.
Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855-1947) was a real-life police officer who published First Person accounts of his exploits.
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