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Calcutta : a cultural and literary history

In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gnter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image.
Print Book, English, 2009
Signal, Oxford, 2009
Guidebooks
xxiv, 243 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
9781904955467, 1904955460
315120105
Foreword / Anita Desai
Introduction. Kolikata, Calcutta, Kolkata
Ch. 1. Company Calcutta
Ch. 2. City of the Babus
Ch. 3. City of the Sahibs
Ch. 4. City of Reformers
Ch. 5. Imperial City
Ch. 6. Struggle for Independence
Ch. 7. City of Strife
Ch. 8. City of Learning
Ch. 9. Artistic Calcutta
Index of Literary and Historical Names
Index of Places & Landmarks
Originally published: 2003
"Foreword by Anita Desai"--Cover