Calcutta in Colonial Transition
Calcutta in Colonial Transition

Author: Ranjit Sen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0429576110

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This 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.

Calcutta
Calcutta

Author: Tanika Sarkar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-14

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1351581724

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The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent in Calcutta, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city ‘emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past’. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Birth of a Colonial City
Birth of a Colonial City

Author: Ranjit Sen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0429638981

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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.

Calcutta Bevy
Calcutta Bevy

Author: P. Thankappan Nair

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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Calcutta Bev Presents A Collection Of Five Rare Poems For Entertaining And, At The Same Time, Enlightening Everyone Who Loves Calcutta.

The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia

Author: Ashwini Tambe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-08-19

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1134055277

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This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. Challenging the assumed stability of colonial rule, it analyses the ways in which the racial, class and moral order instituted by British colonial states was resisted and subverted.