Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary HistorySignal Books, 2003 - 255 стор. 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 |
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COMPANY CALCUTTA | 9 |
Job Charnock and the Early Settlement | 11 |
The Black Hole | 15 |
Robert Clive | 20 |
The White Town and the Black Town | 22 |
Orientalism | 25 |
Cultural Mixing | 29 |
The Permanent Settlement | 32 |
The Victoria Memorial Hall | 129 |
Partition Swadeshi and Terrorism | 135 |
THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE | 140 |
Religious Divides | 141 |
Spiritual Visitors and Secret Societies | 142 |
The Revolutionaries | 144 |
HinduMuslim Confrontation | 150 |
The Marwaris and Barabazar | 151 |
CITY OF THE BABUS | 33 |
Kalighat Paintings | 37 |
Babu Dwarkanath Tagore | 39 |
Young Bengal | 42 |
The Cult of the Book | 44 |
Coffee House Culture | 45 |
Chitpur Road | 47 |
Images of the Divine | 52 |
Durga Puja | 54 |
CITY OF THE SAHIBS | 58 |
Teachers and Missionaries | 62 |
A Day in the Life of a Sahib | 64 |
Belvedere and Alipur | 67 |
The Race Course and the Clubs | 69 |
Fort William | 71 |
Armenians and Anglicans | 73 |
Cemeteries | 79 |
CITY OF REFORMERS | 84 |
Rammohan Roy | 85 |
Iswarchandra Vidyasagar | 90 |
Michael Madhusudan Dutt | 94 |
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Chatterjee | 99 |
Swami Vivekananda | 104 |
IMPERIAL CITY | 113 |
The Beginnings of Nationalism | 116 |
Victorian Viceroys | 120 |
Romesh Chunder Dutt | 123 |
Lord Curzon | 124 |
Curzon and Bengal | 127 |
Communal Riots and Noncooperation | 154 |
The Rise of Subhas Chandra Bose | 158 |
The Bengal Famine | 163 |
The Great Killing | 165 |
CITY OF STRIFE | 169 |
Refugees from East Bengal | 171 |
Mother Teresa | 172 |
The City in Crisis | 175 |
Under Western Eyes | 178 |
The Rise of the Left | 185 |
Marxism Calcuttastyle | 191 |
Salt Lake City and the Metro | 192 |
CITY OF LEARNING | 195 |
Schools and Colleges | 197 |
Sport | 200 |
Science in Calcutta | 201 |
A Love Affair with English | 206 |
Indian English Fiction | 209 |
ARTISTIC CALCUTTA | 215 |
A City Made of Words | 216 |
Theatrical Calcutta | 221 |
Music Old and New | 224 |
Painting and Sculpture | 228 |
Cinema and Satyajit Ray | 234 |
Calcutta Spirit | 238 |
FURTHER READING | 241 |
APPENDIX | 245 |
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