Author: P. Thankappan NairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
A History of Calcutta's Streets
Author: P. Thankappan NairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
A History of Calcutta's Streets
Author: P. Thankappan NairPublisher:
ISBN: 9780836419344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Tercentenary History of Calcutta
Author: Parameswaran Thankappan NairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A History of Calcutta's Streets
Author: P. Thankappan NairPublisher:
ISBN: 9789381209097
Category : Kolkata (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
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A History of Calcutta's Streets
Author: Parameswaran ThankappanNairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The Epic City
Author: Kushanava ChoudhuryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 163557157X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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.
Calcutta
Author: Joseph LelyveldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Walking Calcutta
Author: Keith HumphreyPublisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 190844729X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This wandering odyssey through the city's pullulating backstreets 0and serpentine byways reveals a Calcutta rarely glimpsed by western travellers. Arranged as a series of journeys on foot through the older quarters of the city seldom trod by outsiders, the narrative chronicles the topography, social and historical background and the vibrant street life and characters which give Calcutta its uniqueness. Complete with detailed directions and street maps for the areas explored, the book provides a storehouse of indispensable information for the intrepid traveller.
Calcutta
Author: Krishna DuttaPublisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669595
Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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
Redeeming Calcutta
Author: Steve RaymerPublisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198082187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.