Interesting History of Kolkata Aka Calcutta
Title | Interesting History of Kolkata Aka Calcutta PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Stehr |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2018-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781720012351 |
Interesting History of Kolkata aka Calcutta
Calcutta
Title | Calcutta PDF eBook |
Author | Krishna Dutta |
Publisher | Signal Books |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Calcutta (India) |
ISBN | 9781902669595 |
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, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of
The Early History and Growth of Calcutta
Title | The Early History and Growth of Calcutta PDF eBook |
Author | Binaya Krishna Deb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Calcutta (India) |
ISBN |
Calcutta, Old and New; a Historical and Descriptive Handbook to the City
Title | Calcutta, Old and New; a Historical and Descriptive Handbook to the City PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Evan Cotton |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781230309613 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... PART 11. CHAPTER I. TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA. Calcutta, the chief city of Bengal, the seat of the Supreme Government, and the Metropolis of India, stands in Lat. 22 33' N., and Long. 88 23' E. It is situated about 100 miles from the sea on the left bank of the western branch of the Ganges, called by Europeans the Hooghly and by the people of the country, who reverence it as a holy stream, "Mother Ganges" or the Bhagiratti. The main stream of the Ganges has, as a matter of fact, long since deserted this part of its delta, and now reaches the sea through the Hurringotta and the Megna, far to the eastward. But according to native tradition, the Hooghly was once the sacred stream, and an old temple which, till a few years ago, stood near the tank to the south of the Aliporc Jail, and was believed to be 600 years old, is said to have been built on the bank of the Ganges, which at that time followed the line of Tolly's Nullah past Kalighat. The width of the Hooghly at Armenian Ghat is about 600 yards, but at other parts it widens to nearly a mile. Calcutta occupies a space along the bank of the river of about 4 miles, estimated from Chitpore on the north, to Kidderpore on the south, and with an average width of a mile and a half from east to west, that is, from the river bank to the Circular Road, which forms the eastern boundary. The area may be put at seven square miles, and the length of roads in the town is about 120 miles. The ground on which Calcutta is built is a part of the alluvial deposits of the Gangetic delta, and is elevated not more than 16 or 18 feet above the mean sea level. Excavations that have been made for tanks and foundations shew that to a depth of about 40 feet the surface formation is an alternation...
Calcutta, Old and New
Title | Calcutta, Old and New PDF eBook |
Author | Evan Cotton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Calcutta (India) |
ISBN |
Historical and Topographical Sketch of Calcutta
Title | Historical and Topographical Sketch of Calcutta PDF eBook |
Author | H. James Rainey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Kolkata (India) |
ISBN |
Bengal, Past & Present
Title | Bengal, Past & Present PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Bengal (India) |
ISBN |