Ranjit Sen

Calcutta in Colonial Transition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire merged into one entity-Calcutta. A comprehensive biography of Calcutta, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj and its colonial enterprise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138366916
• ISBN-10: 1138366919
• Artikelnr.: 56134913

Autorenporträt

Ranjit Sen was Professor at the Department of History, University of Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Note on the text. Introduction. 1. Calcutta
Grows into a Global City 2. The Global City in Making: The Nineteenth
Century 3. Urbanization as a Pattern: The Nineteenth Century Trend Reviewed
4. The City Assumes Power: Looking at The City from The Perspective of
Power 5. Calcutta becomes a City of Palaces: Looking at the City from the
Perspective of Morphology 6. The City in Decline: Its History, Heritage and
Identity 7. The Economic Milieu in which the City Grew 8.
De-Industrialization, De-Urbanization and the Advent of British Capital 9.
The Money Culture of Calcutta: An Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Profile
10. The Fiscal Face of Calcutta in the Phase of its Early Growth 11. Did
Calcutta grow Industrially? 12. Bengali Business Enterprise in Calcutta in
the Early Colonial Era 13. Confronting Radical Changes: Calcutta in the
Swadeshi Years. Bibliography. Index