Calcutta in Colonial Transition

List of contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Note on the text. Introduction. 1. Calcutta Grows into a Global City 2. The Global City in Making: The Nineteenth Century 3. Urbanization as a Pattern: The Nineteenth Century Trend Reviewed 4. The City Assumes Power: Looking at The City from The Perspective of Power 5. Calcutta becomes a City of Palaces: Looking at the City from the Perspective of Morphology 6. The City in Decline: Its History, Heritage and Identity 7. The Economic Milieu in which the City Grew 8. De-Industrialization, De-Urbanization and the Advent of British Capital 9. The Money Culture of Calcutta: An Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Profile 10. The Fiscal Face of Calcutta in the Phase of its Early Growth 11. Did Calcutta grow Industrially? 12. Bengali Business Enterprise in Calcutta in the Early Colonial Era 13. Confronting Radical Changes: Calcutta in the Swadeshi Years. Bibliography. Index

About the author

Ranjit Sen was Professor at the Department of History, University of Calcutta.

Summary

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 merged into one entity—Calcutta. A comprehensive biography of Calcutta, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj and its colonial enterprise.

Product details

• Authors: Ranjit Sen, Ranjit (Department of Islamic Studies Sen, Sen Ranjit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367731410
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73141-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, British Empire, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, India, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General