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Author : National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta written by National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Krishna Dutta
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669595
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (695 download)
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
Author : Victoria Memorial (Museum : India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Victoria Memorial written by Victoria Memorial (Museum : India) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Miles Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300118090
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Empress written by Miles Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in the last decades. Taylor also reveals the way in which Victoria's influence as empress contributed significantly to India's modernization, both political and economic. This is, in a number of respects, a fresh account of imperial rule in India, suggesting that it was one of Victoria's successes.
Author : Miles Taylor
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8184750927
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The English Maharani written by Miles Taylor and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria was at the head of the Raj, Britain’s Indian empire, for much of her long reign. Passionately involved, she intervened in Indian politics, commissioned artists and photographers to record a landscape and people that she never saw herself, sent her sons as ambassadors to the subcontinent, and surrounded herself with the trappings of the Indian conquest, from the Koh-i-Noor diamond to her own Indian troop escort and servants. Indian politics and society were in turn fundamentally reshaped by her influence: maharajas vied for her favour, missionaries used her as a tool for conversion and Indian reformers turned to her as a symbol of justice and equality. She also became an object of fascination and veneration: hundreds of popular biographies and tributes emerged from the vernacular printing presses, and her two jubilees of 1887 and 1897 were celebrated with unprecedented gusto. In this new and original account, Miles Taylor charts the remarkable effects India had on the queen as well as the pivotal role she played in India. Drawing on official papers and an abundance of poems, songs, diaries and photographs, Taylor challenges the notion that Victoria enjoyed only ceremonial power and that India’s loyalty to her was without popular support. On the contrary, the rule of the queen-empress penetrated deep into Indian life and contributed significantly to the country’s modernisation, both political and economic. In this subtle portrayal of Victoria’s India, Taylor suggests that the Raj was one of her greatest successes.
Author : Durga Prasad
Publisher : Durga Prasad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Victoria Memorial written by Durga Prasad and published by Durga Prasad. This book was released on with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESCRIPTION (The story is in English) Victoria Memorial is an icon of Kolkata of West Bengal in India. It was constructed during the British Rule by the then Vice Roy Lord Curzon in the memory of Queen Victoria who passed away in the year 1901. To commemorate her memory this beautiful monument was built in the heart of the city within a very large area near Maidan - a popular place of Kolkata city. It is made up of white marble brought from Makrana of Rajasthan. It was started in the year 1906 and completed in 1920, thus nearly 14 years took for its marvellous construction. Sir William Emerson designed its construction and M/S Martin & Co – a highly reputed civil contractor constructed it. To know more about Victoria Memorial - unique of its kind in India you can access to Google Play and by typing Durga Prasad or Shubham Kumar in search column you can read the whole story in your Smartphone/Laptop/Desktop with internet connectivity. You will have to pay Rs20 only online as directed. ************************************************************
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 : Melody S. Mis
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404227323
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)
Download or read book How to Draw Indias Sights and Symbols written by Melody S. Mis and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step directions for drawing the flag and national emblem of India, as well as a Bengal tiger, the Taj Mahal, Buddha and other sights and symbols of India. Includes background information on the subject of each drawing.
Author : Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bengal Fairy Tales written by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty-two Bengali tales and fairy tales.
Author : Homi Bhabha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789382381945
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Vivan Sundaram written by Homi Bhabha and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his History Project, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria Memorial and Museum in Kolkata. The artist's choice of setting was by way of a challenge: to 'occupy' an imperial edifice and change its orientation; to reflect India's struggle for independence and the emerging nation's stake in modernity through an anachronistic mirror; and to engage with postcolonial contradictions through recursive narration. It needed an artwork scaled to the proportion of these issues and the book examines how Sundaram met this challenge. His ideology and aesthetic, his formal choices and method, are critically investigated in a series of essays contributed by distinguished authors: cultural theorists, art and architectural historians. The book carries abundant, well-annotated illustrations of the complex installation.
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 : Asha Achuthan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040152600
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Dai and the Indigenous written by Asha Achuthan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the dai, or traditional birth practitioner, and her place in the emerging therapeutic domain in colonial and contemporary India. The book employs a caste-informed feminist reading of the colonial archive against the grain and explores papers by Englishwomen physicians, texts of indigenous medicine and practitioner accounts, administrative documents, public commentaries, and legislative assembly debates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It also examines contemporary healthcare policy discourse. Using these methodologies, the author traces the production of the dai as an unsanitary, unskilled indigenous figure in colonial and nationalist accounts. The book goes on to examine the workings of gender and caste in the setting up of this figure, at first for containment and then for removal from institutionalized healthcare – an exercise that is more or less completed in the present. The author argues that this exercise is part of the refashioning of the indigenous, and of indigenous medicine, throughout this period, into a highly codified domain that centres caste privilege and is supported by global capital networks. In such a refashioning, the dai figure is rendered remote not only from the centre of the healthcare apparatus but also from the centre of the contemporary nation. This genealogical tracing of indigenous medicine in Indian contexts, rather than separate histories, is also useful to understand better what is termed the healthcare assemblage today, and this book provides a ground on which this can be done.
Author : Raj Kumar
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171417155
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Essays on Indian Art and Architecture written by Raj Kumar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction, Studies in Indian Architecture, Fort Architecture in Ancient and Medieval India, Art and Architecture: Northern India, Art and Architecture: South India, The Aspect and Orientation in Hindu Architecture, Kalinga Style of Architecture, Symbolism of the Dome, Art and Architecture, Muslim Architecture in India, A Plea for Indian Architecture.
Author : India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Legislative Assembly Debates ... written by India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sahanawaz Hussain
Publisher : Self publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book CULTURE AND TRADITION OF WEST BENGAL written by Sahanawaz Hussain and published by Self publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book “CULTURE AND TRADITION OF WEST BENGAL” by Sahanawaz Hussain highlights the different culture of west Bengal. The state west Bengal has a diverse culture. Author Sahanawaz Hussain highlights all the culture of different district of west Bengal starting from North Bengal to South Bengal. West Bengal boasts a rich literary and cultural heritage with evidenced by authors like Rabindranath Tagore,folk music like baul,Gambhira as well as Najrul Geeti,Rabindra Sangeet. West Bengal is the home of a thriving cinema industry dubbed “Tollywood”.throughout the year many festivals are celebrated in bengal.
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Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Indian and Eastern Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 29, no. 8-37, no. 7 (Aug., 1937-July, 1944) include the section: Aviation.
