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Author : Thomas Twining
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Travels in India a Hundred Years Ago written by Thomas Twining and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962172
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
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.
Author : Kushanava Choudhury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163557157X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Epic City written by Kushanava Choudhury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Publisher : Roli Books
ISBN 13 : 9788193750193
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Calcutta Then Kolkata Now written by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles bound back to back in inverted form.
Author : B. B. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131716885
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India written by B. B. Chaudhuri and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hemendra Kumar Roy
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9389136458
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Calcutta Nights written by Hemendra Kumar Roy and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calcutta nights (Raater Kolkata) is the real-life story and memoir of the enigmatic ‘Meghnad Gupta’, pen name of famed Bengali fiction writer Hemendra Kumar Roy. Translated into English by Rajat Chaudhuri almost a century after the first publication of Raater Kolkata in 1923, Roy reveals to contemporary readers The darkest secrets of an earlier Calcutta. The first two decades of the last century, the backdrop for this book, were politically turbulent times. Those days, Calcutta, the erstwhile capital of British India, was teeming with people from different parts of the country besides Europeans and other foreigners. It was a city of sin, pleasure and suffering. Indians who arrived and settled here mingled with locals, some of them picking up dress, manners and the wanton lifestyles of the Bengali ‘Babu’, while others kept their identities intact. All this created a unique cosmopolitan setting, coloured with shades of debauchery, darkness and crime that this first-hand account brilliantly recounts. Written in an age very different from ours, certain views of the author could be jarring for the present times. However, these need to be tempered by the understanding of the sociopolitical contexts and the distance of a century separating us from Meghnad Gupta’s Calcutta. Calcutta nights is the hootum pyanchar naksha (published in 1862 and penned by kaliprasanna Sinha) of the early twentieth century, a book that will help anyone understand the contrasts and colours of a unique Indian metropolis.
Author : Nr. Parbati Mitra Chakraborty
Publisher : Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)
ISBN 13 : 9391150616
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book OLD KOLKATA AND OLDEST FAMILY MITRA written by Nr. Parbati Mitra Chakraborty and published by Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd). This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317916824
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had widespread economic, political and cultural repercussions on an international level. This book looks at the cultural, social, and economic history of intoxicants in South Asia, and analyses the role that alcohol and drugs have played in the region. The book explores the linkages between changing meanings of intoxicating substances, the making of and contestations over colonial and national regimes of regulation, economics, and practices and experiences of consumption. It shows the development of current meanings of intoxicants in South Asia – in terms of politics, cultural norms and identity formation – and the way in which the history of drugs and alcohol is enmeshed in the history of modern empires and nation states — even in a country in which a staunch teetotaller and active anti-drug crusader like Mohandas Gandhi is presented as the ‘father of the nation’. Primarily a historical analysis, the book also includes perspectives from Modern Indology and Cultural Anthropology and situates developments in South Asia in wider imperial and global contexts. It is of interest to scholars working on the social and cultural history of alcohol and drugs, South Asian Studies and Global History.
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Download or read book The Leisure Hour Monthly Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Bumiller
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140156713
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (567 download)
Download or read book May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons written by Elisabeth Bumiller and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey Among The Women Of India In This Travelogue, Washington Post Reporter In India Elisabeth Bumiller, Goes To Most Parts Of India Examining The Realities Of The Lives Of Indian Women: Villagers, Movie-Stars, Intellectuals, Police-Women And Others.
Author : Patrick Doyle
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Engineering written by Patrick Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Great Britain. India Office. Library
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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the India Office ...: pt. 1. Sanskrit books. [By R. Rost] 1897 written by Great Britain. India Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : P. Thankappan Nair
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Total Pages : 1102 pages
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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:
Author : George Hamlin Fitch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752319925
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Critic in the Orient written by George Hamlin Fitch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch
Author : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi . This book was released on 1951-11-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.From July 3 ,1949,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 04-11-1951 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 44 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XVI. No. 45. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 12-39 ARTICLE: 1. Shortwave Transmissions: Listening Conditions In November 2. Diamond AUTHOR: 1. R.B.L. Srivastava 2. Dr. C. V. Raman, F.R.S., N. L. KEYWORDS: 1. winter, reception, wave-bands 2. crystal, Carbon Document ID: INL-1951 (J-D) Vol-II (19)
