White & Black: Journey to the Centre of Imperial Calcutta
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Edition
Ist ed.
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ISBN
9788189738433
Length
228p., Figures; Plates; 30cm.
Subjects
Globalisation has made a dramatic if belated foray into Calcutta, once considered the Second City of the Raj and India's cultural capital. The most visible of its impacts has been a rapid change in the city's skyline. The outlines of the Victoria Memorial Hall, Howrah bridge and the Ochterlony monument (today's Sahid Minar) that once ruled Calcutta's horizon, have been fast overshadowed by the jagged contours of high-rise and mid-rise buildings ...
