Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century

Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Bidiśā Cakrabartī
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Calcutta (India)
ISBN: 9789381523810

This collection examines Calcutta's rapid transformation from a cluster of three villages into the second city of the British Empire. Bidisha Chakraborty and Sarmistha De, two talented archivists, remind us that the ancient and crumbling British legacy scattered all around Calcutta was once a fledgling imperial dream of the most astounding scope. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be.

Recollections of Calcutta for Over Half a Century

Recollections of Calcutta for Over Half a Century
Author: Massey Montague
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781318727513

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.