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. Ranjit Sen...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: an overview of the colonial origin of Calcutta
- Mapping the pattern of urbanization in history: the Calcutta chapter
- A comparative understanding of the growth of the three colonial cities: Madras, Calcutta, 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- How Calcutta superseded interior towns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
- Challenges of an urban growth
- The city assumes form
- The city in hindsight: some observations in conclusion.