The book is an outcome of five years research registered in the University of Calcutta. If offers much greater scope than others for a great mind-a mind of both breadth and depth. It has unveiled the past, shows and shows up the present, glimpses the future of museums in West Bengal, and within the compass of a single book, unfolds by degrees the whole society-society in its small and greatness, its sordidness and splendour, its obvious banalities and its ...
