Calcutta Diary
Author: Ashok Mitra
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780714630823
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Author: Ashok Mitra
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780714630823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1294
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 1060
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ranjit Sen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0429576110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire merged into one entity—Calcutta. This and its companion volume Birth of a Colonial City examine the geopolitical factors that were significant in securing Calcutta's position in the light of growing influence of the East India Company and subsequently the British Empire. A definitive history of Calcutta in its nascent years, this book discusses the challenges of city-planning, the de-industrialization at the hands of British imperialists, the catastrophic fall of the Union Bank, the advent of British capital, and the rise of the Bengali business enterprise in the colonial era. It also underlines how Calcutta facilitated the development of a political consciousness and the pivotal political and cultural role it played when the movement for independence took hold in the country. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, British Studies, city and area studies.
Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Robb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0199088608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life. While Sex and Sensibility deals with larger issues of sexuality, concubines, and dynamics of households in colonial Bengal, this volume deals with life in Calcutta and the re-creation of a British identity. It explores issues like interactions between Europeans and Indians; race and tolerance; laws and legal system; and establishment of colonial city and government giving a bird’s eye-view of colonial Calcutta and its dynamic society. This book will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, gender studies, cultural studies, and British Imperialism, as well as those interested in biographies.
Author: Souvik Naha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1009276255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting cricket, the imperial game par excellence, as the lifeforce of the ordinary Indian? This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture. Cricket, it shows, gave the people a tool to understand and form themselves as a cultural community. More than the outcomes of matches, the beliefs, attitudes and actions the sport generated had an immense bearing on emerging social relationships.
Author: Charles Robert Wilson
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 598
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