Download or read book Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century written by Bidiśā Cakrabartī and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A History of Calcutta s Streets written by P. Thankappan Nair and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calcutta in the 19th Century written by P. Thankappan Nair and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parlour and the Streets written by Sumanta Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Woodcut Prints of Nineteenth Century Calcutta written by Nikhil Sarkar and published by Calcutta : Seagull Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Social Life in 19th Century Calcutta written by Abhijit Dutta and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crime and Urbanization written by Sumanta Banerjee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Social Life in Ancient Calcutta 1750 to 1850 written by P. Thankappan Nair and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glimpses of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century written by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles D Oyly s Calcutta Early Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue focuses on 30 images of early 19th century Calcutta and its environs painted by Sir Charles D'Oyly, one of the most accomplished artists of 19th century British India. Sir Charles was not a professional artist. He was not trained in London or elsewhere in the U.K. Like many of his illustrious predecessors or contemporaries, such as Tilly Kettle, Thomas and William Daniell, Zohann Zoffany, Hodges, Moffat, Samuel Davis, Simpson, James Baille Fraser, William Prinsepp or William Wood. Born in 1781 in Murshidabad, (the capital of Bengal Subah till 1757), he accompanied his family to the U.K. for formal education there and returned to Calcutta in 1808 only to serve the East India Company in various capacities till his retirement in 1833. He served as Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt, Opium and the Marine. He always inevitably managed to hold enviable positions. Collector of Dacca (1808-12), Collector of Customs in Calcutta (1813-21), the Opium Agent and the Commercial Resident of Patna (1821-31). In the course of his long stay in Calcutta, Dacca, Patna and Calcutta, his artistic skill was refined over the years in the company of his mentor George Chinnery as well as his second wife Elizabeth Jane Ross (herself, a painter) and several local artists with whom he worked over these years. The initial amateurish gaucheness disappeared very quickly. His artwork, seen as void of picturesque traits, received both recognition and audience. He was soon considered to be one of the finest liners of his time. Images produced in the Antiquities of Dacca (1817), the Bahar Amateur Lithographic Scrap (1829), Views of Calcutta & Environs (1848), Sketches of a New Road in a Journey from Calcutta to Gyah (1860) and the burlesque poem "Tom Raw, the Griffin" are illustrative of his artistic skill, his sensibilities and his perceptions of the locality symptomatic of the European gaze."--Preface.
Download or read book Calcutta in Urban History written by Pradip Sinha and published by Calcutta : Firma KLM. This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kalikata Kamalalaya written by Bhwanicharan Bandopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Pattern of Education in Early Nineteenth Century Bengal written by Srikumar Acharya and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Study Seeks To Explore And Analyse The Emergence Of A New Education System And Its Role In The Modernization Of Bengali Society During One Of The Most Crucial Periods Of Our History.
Download or read book Bengal Past Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calcutta written by Krishna Dutta and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book New Viewpoints on Nineteenth Century Bengal written by Chittabrata Palit and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representing Calcutta written by Swati Chattopadhyay and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.
