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Calcutta in Colonial Transition
Hardcover
General World HistoryBritish HistoryIndian & South Asian History
ISBN13: 9781138366916
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Mar 19 2019
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.
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