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Author : Joanne Taylor
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ISBN 13 : 9789383098903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The Great Houses of Calcutta written by Joanne Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta scans the old areas of Calcutta, where heritage houses and history fill every crowded lane and secret courtyard. Languishing in another time and place, at the end of narrow lanes and behind untidy shop-fronts, Calcutta’s rich heritage waits to be rediscovered. The ‘Great Houses’ of Calcutta are an important but forgotten part of Calcutta’s architectural history. While British colonial architecture and lifestyle has been extensively photographed and written about, very little has been done on the indigenous equivalent. Focussing on Calcutta’s heritage mansions and palaces, The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta, makes an important contribution to the architectural history of both Calcutta and India. The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta received the Best Book Award, 2007, in Book Cover Category from the Federation of Indian Publishers.
Author : John Clark Marshman
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Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book The History of India written by John Clark Marshman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1042 pages
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Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Hartly House, Calcutta written by and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023112919X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Author : James Anthony Froude
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Total Pages : 750 pages
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Total Pages : 974 pages
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Total Pages : 1208 pages
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Download or read book Bankers' Magazine and State Financial Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration by John Clark Marshman written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ranabir Ray Choudhury
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Total Pages : 413 pages
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Download or read book The Lord Sahib's House written by Ranabir Ray Choudhury and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kushanava Choudhury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 163557157X
Total Pages : 390 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 390 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 : Stephanie Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349125385
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Merchants of the Raj written by Stephanie Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the British experience in India. This book provides a study of British businesses in Calcutta, particularly the managing agency houses. It examines the histories of 15 major managing agencies via the personal experiences of nearly 70 employees.
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 : Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281133
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Calcutta written by Geoffrey Moorhouse and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when Empire finished . . . The imperial residue of Calcutta, a generation after Empire ended, is both a monstrous and a marvellous city. Journalism and television have given us a rough idea of the monstrosities but none at all of the marvels. I can only hope to define the first more clearly and to persuade anyone interested that the second is to be found there too'. Geoffrey Moorhouse succeeds triumphantly in his aims. First published in 1971 this title has stood the test of time. Remarkably it was the first full-length study of Calcutta, seat of the British Raj, since 1918.'The book is organized out of a profound understanding of the true issues and is brilliantly executed.' Paul Scott, Guardian
Author : Phebe Gibbes
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Hartly House, Calcutta written by Phebe Gibbes and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee of the Whole House, and the Select Committee, on the Affairs of the East India Company written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
