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Book Synopsis Calcutta after Independence: a Personal Memoir by : Amartya Sen
Download or read book Calcutta after Independence: a Personal Memoir written by Amartya Sen and published by Jadavpur University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and engaging reminiscence, eminent economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen recalls his college days in Calcutta in the 1950s, and his subsequent joining of the economics department of the fledgling Jadavpur University a few years later. The text of this volume is based on a public lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at Gandhi Bhaban, Jadavpur University, on 5 July 2019.
Book Synopsis Theorizing the Superhero by : Aditya Misra
Download or read book Theorizing the Superhero written by Aditya Misra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Epic City by : Kushanava Choudhury
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropolitan by : Sophia Anne Cotton
Download or read book Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropolitan written by Sophia Anne Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World In Our Time : A Memoir by : Tapan Raychaudhuri
Download or read book The World In Our Time : A Memoir written by Tapan Raychaudhuri and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[A] wonderful account, by one of the leading historians of India, of the story of his life and of the class of landlords of Bengal to which his family belonged ... This is a superb book' - Amartya Sen The World in Our Time is not an autobiography in the simple sense of the term - the bildungsroman of a single man. It is the journey of a nation, right from its inception to maturation. The wide arc of the book - the last days of the Raj with its attendant traumas, the building of a democracy and even an analysis of life in Oxford - does not preclude its detailed and compassionate human interest; a true reminder that grand and sweeping events are, after all, comprised of little people. The author takes us on a roller-coaster ride through his early years in the idyllic surroundings of Barisal (now in Bangladesh) to the tumultuous 1940s, when he was imprisoned for his involvement in the Quit India Movement, to his extraordinary achievements as historian and academician, all playing out against the momentous changes taking place in the world around him. This retrospective recounting of tempestuous times, while being passionate and intense, is also suffused with an understated and wry humour which, in the words of Amartya Sen, 'demonstrates that seriously enlightening history can also be great fun to read'.
Download or read book India Unbound written by Gurcharan Das and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.
Book Synopsis Memoir of the Rev. H. Venn by : William Knight
Download or read book Memoir of the Rev. H. Venn written by William Knight and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jawaharlal Nehru and India's Foreign Policy by : I︠U︡riĭ Petrovich Nasenko
Download or read book Jawaharlal Nehru and India's Foreign Policy written by I︠U︡riĭ Petrovich Nasenko and published by New Delhi : Sterling Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gandhi and Indian Independence by : Dr. Padma Ramakrishnan
Download or read book Gandhi and Indian Independence written by Dr. Padma Ramakrishnan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years after his assassination, Mahatma Gandhi remains an elusive figure - discomfiting and difficult to comprehend. In this book, Dr Padma Ramakrishnan gives great weight to Gandhi's role in Indian Independence and assesses his influence and triumphs. She has appraised the role of Mahatma Gandhi in the transfer of power from the point of view of a political scientist. The book is analytical and objective - presenting Gandhi as a political leader, not as a visionary. The author analyses the politics of negotiation in her chapters on the Shimla Conference, the Cabinet Mission Plan, and Interim Government. In the chapter "Gandhi and the Partition of India”, she concludes that it was not Gandhi who was responsible for the partition of India. This is a distinct contribution to the scholarly output of Gandhian studies.
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Book Synopsis Life & Times of C.R. Das by : Prithwis Chandra Ray
Download or read book Life & Times of C.R. Das written by Prithwis Chandra Ray and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Cultural Research Institute by : West Bengal (India). Cultural Research Institute
Download or read book Bulletin of the Cultural Research Institute written by West Bengal (India). Cultural Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Long History of Partition in Bengal by : Rituparna Roy
Download or read book The Long History of Partition in Bengal written by Rituparna Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide and inclusive range of perspectives and studies the specificities of the history of violence and migration and their memories in the Bengal region. The chapters in the volume range from the administrative consequences of partition to public policies on refugee settlement, life stories of refugees in camps and colonies, and literary and celluloid representations of Partition. It also probes questions of memory, identity, and the memorialization of events. Eclectic in its theoretical orientation and methodology, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of partition history, colonialism, refugee studies, Indian history, South Asian history, migration studies, and modern history in general.
Book Synopsis The Missionary Position by : Christopher Hitchens
Download or read book The Missionary Position written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?
Book Synopsis The Sign of Four by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book The Sign of Four written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian ‘Mutiny’ to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes’ own Baker Street. This Broadview Edition places Doyle’s tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies.
