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This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire mer

The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent in Calcutta, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in t

Figure 41 - An artist's depiction of the Black Town: The Chitpore Road, Calcutta. Coloured chromolithograph by William Simpson, 1867

According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasara

The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as