Imprint of the Raj
Subtitle: How Fingerprinting was Born in Colonial India
Publisher: Macmillan; Pan Macmillan
Published: February 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333989166
Subjects: Criminal investigation & detection; Forensic science; History of specific subjects
Description: 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 text takes the reader back to the origins of fingerprinting in India.