Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay

by Ashwini Tambe (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $33.60

  Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, legislators in Bombay passed a series of repetitive laws seeking to control prostitution. During the same time, Bombay's sex industry grew vast in scale. Ashwini Tambe explores why these remarkably similar laws failed to achieve their goal and questions the actual purpose of such lawmaking.