Calcutta in colonial transition. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ranjit Sen.
• Authors: Sen, Ranjit
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 954.14703; Urbanization -- India -- Kolkata -- History; Kolkata (India) -- History; Kolkata (India) -- Colonial influence; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429576119; 9780429578229; 9780429574009; 9780429199998
• Related ISBNs: 9781138366916
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