Calcutta DiaryFirst Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Calcutta Every Day 37 | 3 |
The Burntout Cases | 7 |
The Country Will Not Miss Him | 12 |
Take a Girl Like Her | 16 |
The Song of Mother Courage | 21 |
The Story of Indra Lohar | 25 |
All that Lives Must Die | 30 |
An Historical Parallel | 34 |
Section | 109 |
A TwoSector Model | 111 |
One Dream Which Did Not Come True | 115 |
The New Obfuscators | 119 |
A Ritual a Day | 123 |
Toward the Ultimate Solution | 127 |
Two Bits of Extra Chips | 131 |
We Have Been Here Before | 135 |
The Emancipation of Kamal Bose | 39 |
Fascism Shall Not Pass | 44 |
Suffer Us Not To Mock Ourselves | 49 |
A Brief Whiff of Hope | 54 |
The Planes Do Not Land Here Any More | 58 |
A Revolutionary Handshake | 62 |
The Legacy and the Led | 66 |
A Wizened Crowd | 70 |
A Reserve Army of Poets | 74 |
A Small Funeral | 78 |
The Nationalisation of Akhtari Bai | 82 |
An Ordinary Man | 86 |
The Quashing of Many Dreams | 90 |
Cometh the Goddess | 94 |
Totems Are All | 98 |
Guernicas Children Remember 100 | 101 |
He Had Picked the Wrong Target | 105 |
The Species of MakeBelieve | 139 |
He Who Escapes | 144 |
Let Facts Speak | 149 |
The Jesting Pilates | 153 |
A Gleam in the Establishment Eye | 157 |
The Champion PanHandlers | 161 |
Section Three | 165 |
A Diary from Nowhere | 167 |
The Only Hindu Kingdom in the World | 171 |
Plastic Surgery Gone Waste | 175 |
The Rich Have Inherited the Earth | 179 |
An Integrated Society | 184 |
Lord Kitchener is Alive and Kicking | 189 |
A Certain Charm in the Old Rascal | 194 |
One Revolution is Enough? | 198 |
Glossary | 203 |
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Common terms and phrases
Akhtari Bai Al Capone altogether American amongst Arab bail Bangladesh Begum Akhtar Bengali Bombay Bombay films British Buddhadeva Bose Calcutta capital Capone cent Congress constitute continue country's countryside Court crowd cultural Curzon Park death Delhi despite dream economic economists élite fact family planning farmers fascism food-grains foreign funds girls Government grain groups happened Hindu homeopath Howrah hundred income India Indra Indra Lohar industrial inflation Kamal Bose labour land landlord leaders less living Maruti Maulana middle class million tonnes months Mrinal Sen nation Nepal never newspapers Nirmal Kumar Bose once one's ordinary organised output party perhaps Picasso poetry poets Police Station political politicians poor Prabir Prime Minister production public distribution public distribution system revolution revolutionary rice rich rupees Satyajit Ray season share-cropper Sharmila Tagore social talk thousand traders turn village West Bengal young zamindars
References to this book
Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning Ulf Hannerz No preview available - 1992 |