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| Author | : Durga Prasad |
| Publisher | : Durga Prasad |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
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DESCRIPTION (The story is in English) The author happens to visit Kolkata along with his grandson – Mr. Shubham Kumar and his granddaughter – Miss Monika Kumari in the month of April 2014 in connection with their examination. After the examination is over they desired to visit some historical places of Kolkata. The author took them to Howrah station and from there to Koila Ghat by fairy motor boat and while crossing the Hooghly River he advised them to view the Howrah Bridge from a close distance with their own eyes clearly. On seeing the gigantic construction of the Howrah Bridge without pillars, they were very surprised. They wanted to know many things. The next day in the morning the author visited Kali Ghat – Kali Mandir by sub-railways. The author stated one by another the whole history of the temple. On the same day the author took them to Maidan where the Victoria Memorial is situated. They got down at the Maidan Metro Station and from there they went to Victoria Memorial and saw many things. The author has described these places with keen interest to his grandson and granddaughter as to how they were built, when they were established and by whom. Really all these places are worth seeing and whosoever happens to visit Kolkata must see these historical places of British regime/rule. You may access to the Google Play and then type the name of the story or the name of the author – Durga Prasad in search column by paying Rs.20 online as directed, ********************************************
| Author | : Debjani Bhattacharyya |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 485 |
| Release | : 2018-05-24 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108681727 |
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.
| 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 | : Krishna Kumar Birla |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 989 |
| Release | : 2009-04-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 8184758510 |
What a family! Simple and complex, traditional and modern, religious and rational, money-minded and money-renouncing, Indian and international, fiercely individualistic and inspiringly loyal' -P. Lal In a life spanning nine decades Krishna Kumar Birla, son of the legendary Ghanshyam Das Birla, witnessed events that shaped India in the twentieth century and had close associations with iconic figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Madan Mohan Malviya, Jayaprakash Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Head of one of India’s leading business houses, K.K. Birla embraced principles in which the creation of wealth, philanthropy and political leadership were all regarded as part of nation-building. Written in a style that is simple and translucent in its sincerity, Brushes with History brings alive an important era in the life of the nation, its changing social mores, evolving principles of corporate governance and enduring family values In an affectionate and moving tribute, K.K. Birla’s daughter, Shobhana Bhartia, acquaints readers with her father’s spiritual strength and moral values which were an integral part of his life.
| Author | : Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2011-04-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0143066552 |
From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.
| Author | : Tess Rice |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-05 |
| Genre | : Kolkata (India) |
| ISBN | : 9781925760514 |
The Goddess and the City: Kali and Kolkata brings in to focus one of the world's most vibrant living Victorian cities. It was the capital of British India from 1722 until the Raj relocated to Delhi in 1911. The architectural wealth bedazzles but no more so than the people who live within its torn and much-loved fabric. Despite its myriad forms of transport including trams, Hooghly ferries, Ambassador taxis and a super-efficient metro, one can never travel quickly in Kolkata; every person has a story to tell, food to offer, or something to show. Awards-listed Melbourne-based photographer Tess Rice captures with perfect tone and resonance a city and its people. It is photography that speaks of engagement, and people who are culturally rich and overwhelmingly generous and sophisticated. With work taken during Puja celebrations, Kali Ma's consciousness and energy magically pervade the city, and a photographic body of work full of nuance and surprising intimacy. The Goddess and the City is a book to be savoured.Introduction by Tony Wheeler
| Author | : Deep Halder |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2019-05-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9353025885 |
'When the house of history is on fire, journalists are often the first-responders, pulling victims away from the flames. Deep Halder is one of them.' - Amitava KumarIn 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government. Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of diseases, malnutrition resulting from an economic blockade, as well as from violence unleashed by the police on the orders of the government. Some of the refugees who survived Marichjhapi say the number of those who lost their lives could be as high as 10,000, while the-then government officials maintain that there were less than ten victims.How does an entire island population disappear? How does one unearth the truth and the details of one of the worst atrocities of post-Independent India? Journalist Deep Halder reconstructs the buried history of the 1979 massacres through his interviews with survivors, erstwhile reporters, government officials and activists with a rare combination of courage, conscientiousness and empathy.
| Author | : Abir Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2021-11-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 164313745X |
Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery featuring police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surrender-Not Banerjee, set in 1920s Calcutta. Calcutta, 1923 When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force—Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee—track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?
| Author | : Amit Chaudhuri |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2013-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307962172 |
The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta. Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels—a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a “self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending life.” He takes us along vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways; introduces us to intellectuals, Marxists, members of the declining haute bourgeoisie, street vendors, domestic workers; brings to life the city’s sounds and smells, its architecture, its traditional shops and restaurants, new malls and hotels. And, using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and toward the politics of the present, finding a city “still not recovered from history” yet possessed of a singular modernity. Chaudhuri observes and writes about Calcutta with rare candor and clarity, making graspable the complex, ultimately ineluctable reasons for his passionate attachment to the place and its people.
| Author | : Prosenjit Das Gupta |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
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