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Author: Bidiśā Cakrabartī Publisher: ISBN: 9789381523810 Category : Calcutta (India) Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
This collection examines Calcutta's rapid transformation from a cluster of three villages into the second city of the British Empire. Bidisha Chakraborty and Sarmistha De, two talented archivists, remind us that the ancient and crumbling British legacy scattered all around Calcutta was once a fledgling imperial dream of the most astounding scope. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be.
Author: Bidiśā Cakrabartī Publisher: ISBN: 9789381523810 Category : Calcutta (India) Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
This collection examines Calcutta's rapid transformation from a cluster of three villages into the second city of the British Empire. Bidisha Chakraborty and Sarmistha De, two talented archivists, remind us that the ancient and crumbling British legacy scattered all around Calcutta was once a fledgling imperial dream of the most astounding scope. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be.
Author: Sumit Chakrabarti Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000193683 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.
Author: Sumanta Banerjee Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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Sumanta Banerjee Analyses The Development Of The Various Forms Of Folk Culture Of The Urban Poor In The New Metropolis Of Calcutta, As A Fallout Of The Process Of Urbanization In The Wake Of The Establishment Of The British Colonial System In Bengal. Profusely Illustrated With Examples Of Contemporary Street Songs And Popular Performing Arts, The Book Traces The Beginings Of Tension Between These Urban Folk Cultural Forms And The New Culture Of The Bengali Elite That Was Western In Inspiration.
Author: Bidiśā Cakrabartī
Author: Bidiśā Cakrabartī
Author: Sumit Chakrabarti
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Author: Sumanta Banerjee
Author: Sushil Kumar De
Author: Sumanta Banerjee
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Author: Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
Author: P. Thankappan Nair
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