TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakraborty, Bidisha
AU  -  De, Sarmistha
TI  - Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century
SN  - 9789381523810
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - .
PB  - Niyogi Books
KW  - 19th century
KW  - City planning
KW  - History
KW  - India
KW  - Kolkata
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Visual Culture
N1  - 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. This book delves into several archival sources and unearths not just the grandeur of such an ambitious undertaking but also the meticulous planning that went with it. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be. This book shows not just how much they achieved but also the inevitable resistance that they faced. One is also made aware of the complex coloniser-colonised dialectic that lay behind the growth of a city like Calcutta
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