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Author | : Kushanava Choudhury |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 163557157X |
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Once the capital of the British Raj, and then India's industrial and cultural hub, by 2001 Calcutta was clearly past its prime. Why, his relatives beseeched him, had he returned? Surely, he could have moved to Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore, where a new Golden Age of consumption was being born. Yet fifteen million people still lived in Calcutta. Working for the Statesman, its leading English newspaper, Kushanava Choudhury found the streets of his childhood unchanged by time. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish-sellers squatted on bazaar floors; politics still meant barricades and bus burnings, while Communist ministers travelled in motorcades. Sifting through the chaos for the stories that never make the papers, Kushanava Choudhury paints a soulful, compelling portrait of the everyday lives that make Calcutta. Written with humanity, wit and insight, The Epic City is an unforgettable depiction of an era, and a city which is a world unto itself.
Author | : Robert Burford |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Calcutta (India) |
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Author | : Robert Burford |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Calcutta (India) |
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Author | : London panorama, Leicester sq |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1830 |
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Author | : Ranjit Sen |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429638981 |
Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the historical and geopolitical factors that were significant in securing its prominence, and its subsequent urbanization which was a colonial experience without an antecedent. Further, it sheds light on Calcutta’s early search for identity — how it superseded interior towns and flourished as the seat of power for its hinterland; developed its early institutions, while its municipal administration slowly burgeoned. A sharp analysis of the colonial enterprise, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian history, urban studies, British Studies and area studies.
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.
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Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : Robert Burford |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Calcutta (India) |
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Author | : Amitav Ghosh |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Calcutta (India) |
ISBN | : 9780300209174 |
This exquisitely produced book features a selection of McPhee's works in and around India's former capital. Here we glimpse courtyards, living spaces, temples and altars as both vestiges of the past and integral to contemporary urban existence. McPhee's images sensitively penetrate the surface to show the blurred boundaries between social classes, the blending of public and private life, and resonances between India and other parts of the world.
Author | : S. P. Agrawal |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788170225386 |