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.

The Parlour and the Streets

The Parlour and the Streets
Author: Sumanta Banerjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Sumanta Banerjee Analyses The Development Of The Various Forms Of Folk Culture Of The Urban Poor In The New Metropolis Of Calcutta, As A Fallout Of The Process Of Urbanization In The Wake Of The Establishment Of The British Colonial System In Bengal. Profusely Illustrated With Examples Of Contemporary Street Songs And Popular Performing Arts, The Book Traces The Beginings Of Tension Between These Urban Folk Cultural Forms And The New Culture Of The Bengali Elite That Was Western In Inspiration.

Representing Calcutta

Representing Calcutta
Author: Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Calcutta (India)
ISBN: 9780415343596

Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.