Calcutta In Colonial Transition

Author : Ranjit Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429576110
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calcutta in Colonial Transition written by Ranjit Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This and its companion volume Birth of a Colonial City examine the geopolitical factors that were significant in securing Calcutta's position in the light of growing influence of the East India Company and subsequently the British Empire. A definitive history of Calcutta in its nascent years, this book discusses the challenges of city-planning, the de-industrialization at the hands of British imperialists, the catastrophic fall of the Union Bank, the advent of British capital, and the rise of the Bengali business enterprise in the colonial era. It also underlines how Calcutta facilitated the development of a political consciousness and the pivotal political and cultural role it played when the movement for independence took hold in the country. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, British Studies, city and area studies.

Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032072203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kolkata -- the Colonial City in Transition written by Sumana Bandyopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ranjit Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429638981
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth of a Colonial City written by Ranjit Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the historical and geopolitical factors that were significant in securing its prominence, and its subsequent urbanization which was a colonial experience without an antecedent. Further, it sheds light on Calcutta’s early search for identity — how it superseded interior towns and flourished as the seat of power for its hinterland; developed its early institutions, while its municipal administration slowly burgeoned. A sharp analysis of the colonial enterprise, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian history, urban studies, British Studies and area studies.

Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000603717
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kolkata — The Colonial City in Transition written by Sumana Bandyopadhyay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a range of contemporary urban issues. It examines the spatial consequences of urban sprawl, land-use changes, ecological crisis, climate change, critical disasters, dynamics of the peri-urban interface, neighborhood restructuring, debates around heritage conservation, housing poverty, gray spaces, governance and the political landscape of the city. This book will be useful to students, teachers, and researchers of geography, especially human geography and urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning, social geography, governance, ecology, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also benefit urban planners, development professionals, and those interested in the study of the city of Kolkata and its transformations.

Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816626878
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texts of Power written by Partha Chatterjee and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta explore t genealogy of India's contemporary intellectual modernity, concentrating on Bengal the first modern province. The topics include colonial and nationalist literature, art, politics, child rearing, historical memory, and th

Author : Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415343596
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Calcutta written by Swati Chattopadhyay and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.

Author : Bidiśā Cakrabartī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789381523810
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century written by Bidiśā Cakrabartī and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be.

Author : Meera Kosambi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombay in Transition written by Meera Kosambi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351581724
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calcutta written by Tanika Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature of any city but is interestingly characteristic of Calcutta. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades, as against the entire historical period of a city. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city ‘emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past’.

Author : Siddhartha Sen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048530687
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonizing, decolonizing, and globalizing Kolkata written by Siddhartha Sen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book about architecture, urban design, and urban planning in Kolkata from the late seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first century, told in the context of India. The author presents a new interpretive history of the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one and its attempt to become a global city. Drawing from multiple theories such post-structuralism; theories of dependent urbanism; Marxist political economy; postcolonial theory; contemporary urban theory; and studies of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), and civil society, the book positions architecture, urban design, and urban planning in Kolkata's political economy and social milieu. The author employs critical ethnographical and other qualitative methods to narrate the amazing saga of Kolkata's urbanism. The book is accessible to a wide-ranging audience and is visually rich.