Sumanta Banerjee

Gebundenes Buch

Memoirs of Roads

Calcutta from Colonial Urbanization to Global Modernization

Beschreibung

The present book is a story of three roads of Calcutta which at various historical stages had produced diverse political and socio-economic currents, and led to the growth of institutions that had shaped the minds of Calcutta's citizens.

Autor

Sumanta Banerjee is a historian, journalist, and cultural theorist. He worked with the Statesman in Calcutta and New Delhi from 1962 till 1973, and was later a fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His previous publications include The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta (1989), Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal (1998), and The Wicked City: Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta (2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199468102
• ISBN-10: 0199468109
• Artikelnr.: 47867078