Calcutta Diary
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Author |
: Ashok Mitra |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0714630829 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780714630823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calcutta Diary by : Ashok Mitra
First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Frederic C. Thomas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2016-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315479231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315479230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calcutta Poor by : Frederic C. Thomas
Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.
Author |
: Ranjit Sen |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2019-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429576119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429576110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calcutta in Colonial Transition by : Ranjit Sen
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.
Author |
: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1294 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924066284849 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Author |
: Souvik Naha |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2022-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009276252 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009276255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by : Souvik Naha
What 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.
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1060 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951001915158C |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8C Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by :
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 1897 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433088316868 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by :
Author |
: Asiatic Society of Bengal |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105015360758 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ... by : Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author |
: Charles Robert Wilson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4304804 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Early Annals of the English in Bengal by : Charles Robert Wilson
Author |
: Paul Green |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 804 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807821055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807821053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Southern Life by : Paul Green
A selection of letters that sums up the life of a literary Southerner, who veered away from the commonly held views of his segregated town