Chandak Sengoopta
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Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India
Chandak Sengoopta
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…
