Interesting History Of Kolkata Aka Calcutta
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Interesting History Of Kolkata Aka Calcutta
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Author : Emily Stehr
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-09
Interesting History Of Kolkata Aka Calcutta written by Emily Stehr and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09 with History categories.
Interesting History of Kolkata aka Calcutta
Calcutta
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Author : Krishna Dutta
language : en
Publisher: Signal Books
Release Date : 2003
Calcutta written by Krishna Dutta and has been published by Signal Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Calcutta (India) categories.
In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of
A History Of Calcutta S Streets
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Author : P. Thankappan Nair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A History Of Calcutta S Streets written by P. Thankappan Nair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Kolkata (India) categories.
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta
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Author : Binaya Krishna Deb
language : en
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Release Date : 2013-09
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta written by Binaya Krishna Deb and has been published by Rarebooksclub.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...the under-mentioned places; and notwithstanding the acquisitions which have since taken place, is continued under the same arrangement: --1. Coast of Malabar, which includes the whole of the western side of the Peninsula. 2. Coast of Coromandel, which includes the whole of the eastern coast. 3. Island of Ceylon. 4. Coast of Sumatra. V. That to and from the under-mentioned places comprehended in 1801, under the head of Foreign Asia; and though some of the places have since heen added to the British possessions the same arrangement is continued. Under the head of various places are comprehended the Maldive and Laccadive Islands, Mozambique, and other ports on the east coast of Africa, New South Wales, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, &c. The whole of the commerce from port to port in India, commonly called the country trade, is in the hands of individuals, the East India Company never interfering; and from the various statements, it will be seen that there is no place of commercial note from the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to which a trade is not driven by the British or native merchants resident in the Company's territories, except Japan, to which country the East India Company, in the infancy of their establishment, made several unsuccessful attempts to establish a trade. For a long period, all European nations, except the Dutch, have been forbidden visiting Japan; notwithstanding which a ship has recently been sent from Calcutta, but was unable to obtain permission to trade. Until the passing of the Act in the year 1793, the East India Company had almost a monopoly of trade between India and China. No private person was permitted to trade on his own account. If any person or body of persons without the express permission of the...
Calcutta Old And New A Historical And Descriptive Handbook To The City
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Author : Sir Evan Cotton
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Calcutta Old And New A Historical And Descriptive Handbook To The City written by Sir Evan Cotton and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... PART 11. CHAPTER I. TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA. Calcutta, the chief city of Bengal, the seat of the Supreme Government, and the Metropolis of India, stands in Lat. 22 33' N., and Long. 88 23' E. It is situated about 100 miles from the sea on the left bank of the western branch of the Ganges, called by Europeans the Hooghly and by the people of the country, who reverence it as a holy stream, "Mother Ganges" or the Bhagiratti. The main stream of the Ganges has, as a matter of fact, long since deserted this part of its delta, and now reaches the sea through the Hurringotta and the Megna, far to the eastward. But according to native tradition, the Hooghly was once the sacred stream, and an old temple which, till a few years ago, stood near the tank to the south of the Aliporc Jail, and was believed to be 600 years old, is said to have been built on the bank of the Ganges, which at that time followed the line of Tolly's Nullah past Kalighat. The width of the Hooghly at Armenian Ghat is about 600 yards, but at other parts it widens to nearly a mile. Calcutta occupies a space along the bank of the river of about 4 miles, estimated from Chitpore on the north, to Kidderpore on the south, and with an average width of a mile and a half from east to west, that is, from the river bank to the Circular Road, which forms the eastern boundary. The area may be put at seven square miles, and the length of roads in the town is about 120 miles. The ground on which Calcutta is built is a part of the alluvial deposits of the Gangetic delta, and is elevated not more than 16 or 18 feet above the mean sea level. Excavations that have been made for tanks and foundations shew that to a depth of about 40 feet the surface formation is an alternation...
Calcutta
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Author : Geoffrey Moorhouse
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1983
Calcutta written by Geoffrey Moorhouse and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Calcutta (India) categories.
The book is organized out of a profound understanding of the true issues and is brilliantly executed. Geoffrey Moorhouse, like another Zola, plunges into this hell. Dissecting it, almost lovingly, he discovers aspects of the human spirit, both Indian universal, out of which the reader may trace some sort of pattern in the chaos.
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta
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Author : Raja Binaya Krishna Deb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta written by Raja Binaya Krishna Deb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Calcutta (India) categories.
Calcutta Old And New
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Author : Evan Cotton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Calcutta Old And New written by Evan Cotton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Calcutta (India) categories.
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta
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Author : Binaya Krishna Deb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Early History And Growth Of Calcutta written by Binaya Krishna Deb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Calcutta (India) categories.
Chronicling Calcutta
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Author : Sukhamaya Swain
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2019-10-04
Chronicling Calcutta written by Sukhamaya Swain and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-04 with History categories.
Did you know that Kolkata has the country’s largest library? The city gave India its first printing press. The first foreign-recognised educational institution was also in Kolkata. The first lift (a squirrel cage one) was inaugurated in the city of joy. A large number of Nobel-nominated people and institutions are also from Kolkata. It’s not just the Oriental connection which people link with Kolkata, it has stories of many religions, cultures, stalwarts, freedom struggle, education, architecture, nationalism, literature, sports, science, revolts and languages. This has attracted many, insiders as well as outsiders, to the city. As an outsider to the city, the history bug caught the author as soon as he landed in Kolkata. The weekend habit of discovering the city has resulted in this novel where the author cherry-picks 21 places in and around Kolkata. He expects incremental awareness and eagerness towards these facets of history in particular and a sense of respect for all-historical elements of this great city in general.