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Author | : Brian Paul Bach |
Publisher | : books catalog |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Calcutta, the Star of the East, is a great city, a City of Palaces, of People and of 'Joy'. Calcutta's buildings are entertaining in a compelling sense, akin to a great epic drama, and so they are, in a serious pictorial sense as well--a grand display gallery. Because of its political and economic history, the city and its background have been lavishly documented. As a matter of record it has sufficient awareness of its own architectural heritage. This book allows these buildings to 'speak for themselves'. Illustrated by the author, this book strives to achieve a point of view not of a foreigner but of an appreciator. With notes of the past and seductive speculations of the future, it examines the architectural and associated apparatuses of Calcutta as it is.
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Kolkata (India) |
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Author | : George Ernest Bulger |
Publisher | : Secunderabad, [India] : Printed at the Regimental Press, 2nd Batt., 10th Foot |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Frederic C. Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315479230 |
Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.
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Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : India |
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Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1823 |
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Krishna Dutta |
Publisher | : Signal Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Calcutta (India) |
ISBN | : 9781902669595 |
In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of
Author | : Walter Kelly Firminger |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Calcutta |
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Author | : Keith Humphrey |
Publisher | : Grosvenor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 190844729X |
This wandering odyssey through the city's pullulating backstreets 0and serpentine byways reveals a Calcutta rarely glimpsed by western travellers. Arranged as a series of journeys on foot through the older quarters of the city seldom trod by outsiders, the narrative chronicles the topography, social and historical background and the vibrant street life and characters which give Calcutta its uniqueness. Complete with detailed directions and street maps for the areas explored, the book provides a storehouse of indispensable information for the intrepid traveller.