Calcutta in the 18th Century

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Fifteen foreigners setting out in the 18th century to discover Calcutta! How did Charnock’s City impress them? In Calcutta in the 18th Century: Impressions of Travellers are collected their queer accounts in their own quaint language. The accounts are reproduced verbatim here for the sake of readers who need not, any more, hunt those rare books and journals, Biographical details given by the compiler will enable them to study these accounts in their proper perspective. Discover 18th century Calcutta when the Tamaring tree of the Old English Burial Ground was no less a botanical wonder than the great Banyan today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Thankappan Nair

P. Thankappan Nair (b. 1933), hailed as the "bare-foot historian", and talkin', walkin', livinâ€™ encyclopaedia of Kolkata has produced no less than 39 volumes, out of which 31 are on the City of his choice. He has received exposure on the electronic and other media, at home and abroad, besides felicitation addresses and mementoes from several institutions of Calcutta, including the University of Burdwan, which conferred on him a D. Litt. After working for about a decade, he is again concentrating on Kolkata, taking up heritage history of the City in hand.