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 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 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 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 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 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 History of Bengali Literature in the Nineteenth Century 1800 1825 written by Sushil Kumar De and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 538 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 Glimpses of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century written by R C Author Majumdar and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 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 The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century written by Sumit Chakrabarti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 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.
Download or read book Calcutta in Colonial Transition written by Ranjit Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Calcutta written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate, luminous portrait of Calcutta. Chaudhuri guides us through the city where he was born, the home he loved as a child, the setting of his acclaimed novels—a place he now finds captivating for all the ways it has, and, perhaps more powerfully, has not, changed. He shows us a city relatively untouched by the currents of globalization but possessed of a “self-renewing way of seeing, of inhabiting space, of apprehending life.” He takes us along vibrant avenues and derelict alleyways; introduces us to intellectuals, Marxists, members of the declining haute bourgeoisie, street vendors, domestic workers; brings to life the city’s sounds and smells, its architecture, its traditional shops and restaurants, new malls and hotels. And, using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and toward the politics of the present, finding a city “still not recovered from history” yet possessed of a singular modernity. Chaudhuri observes and writes about Calcutta with rare candor and clarity, making graspable the complex, ultimately ineluctable reasons for his passionate attachment to the place and its people.
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.
