European Calcutta: Images and Recollections of a Bygone Era
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8174765069
Length
368p., 80 B/w Plates.
Subjects
The present work goes beyond all earlier studies of Calcutta in the colonial times in its punctillous sifting of evidence and documentation to reconstruct the history of the slow growth of the city from its first colonial construction out of three non-descript villages on the bank of Hugli. In the process the author opens up a panoramic historical view of different spots and locations in the city in the first part of the book is followed by a commercial history ...
