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Birth of a colonial city : Calcutta /

"Long before Calcutta was 'discovered' by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranj...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Ranjit Sen
Formatua: Printed Book
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: London : Routledge, 2019
Gaiak:
Aurkibidea:
  • Mapping the pattern of urbanization in history : the Calcutta chapter
  • A comparative understanding of the growth of the three colonial cities : Calcutta, Madras and Bombay
  • Revolution on the riverbank : a study of the creation of a mankind necessary for urbanization
  • Geopolitics of early urbanization in Calcutta, 1698-1757
  • Who was the real founder of Calcutta? Between two perspectives
  • How Calcutta superseded interior towns
  • The logic of urbanization
  • Municipal administration
  • Making a pilgrim centre : Kalighat
  • The eighteenth century : the misery of a checkmated soul
  • The city assumes form.