Calcutta by Dutta, Krishna -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Front Matter

Title Page Publisher Information Dedication Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction

Kalighat

Calcutta

Company Calcutta

Job Charnock and the Early Settlement The Black Hole Robert Clive The White Town and the Black Town Orientalism Cultural Mixing The Permanent Settlement

City of the Babus

Kalighat Paintings Babu Dwarkanath Tagore Young Bengal The Cult of the Book Coffee House Culture Chitpur Road Kumortuli: Images of the Divine Durga Puja

City of the Sahibs

Government House Teachers and Missionaries A Day in the Life of a Sahib Belvedere and Alipur The Race Course and the Clubs Fort William Calcutta’s Churches: Armenians and Anglicans Cemeteries

City of Reformers

Rammohan Roy Iswarchandra Vidyasagar Michael Madhusudan Dutt Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee) Swami Vivekananda Imperial City The Beginnings of Nationalism Victorian Viceroys Romesh Chunder Dutt Lord Curzon Curzon and Bengal The Victoria Memorial Hall Partition, Swadeshi and Terrorism

The Struggle for Independence

Religious Divides Spiritual Visitors and Secret Societies The Revolutionaries Hindu-Muslim Confrontation The Marwaris and Barabazar Communal Riots and Non-cooperation The Rise of Subhas Chandra Bose The Bengal Famine The Great Killing

City of Strife

Refugees from East Bengal Mother Teresa The City in Crisis Under Western Eyes Louis Malle and Günter Grass: Images of Horror The Rise of the Left Marxism Calcutta-style Salt Lake City and the Metro

City of Learning

Schools and Colleges Calcutta Cricket Club: Sport Laboratories and Discoveries: Science in Calcutta A Love Affair with English Indian English Fiction

Artistic Calcutta

A City Made of Words Theatrical Calcutta Music Old and New Painting and Sculpture Cinema and Satyajit Ray Calcutta Spirit

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