Calcutta in colonial transition / Ranjit Sen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sen, Ranjit, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

History.

Kolkata (India)--History.

Kolkata (India).

Kolkata (India)--Colonial influence.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

India--Kolkata.

Urbanization--India--Kolkata--History.

Colonial influence.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 284 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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. This and its companion volume Birth of a Colonial City examine the geopolitical factors that were significant in securing Calcutta's position in the light of growing influence of the East India Company and subsequently the British Empire. A definitive history of Calcutta in its nascent years, this book discusses the challenges of city-planning, the de-industrialization at the hands of British imperialists, the catastrophic fall of the Union Bank, the advent of British capital, and the rise of the Bengali business enterprise in the colonial era. It also underlines how Calcutta facilitated the development of a political consciousness and the pivotal political and cultural role it played when the movement for independence took hold in the country"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Calcutta grows into a global city

The global city in making: the nineteenth century

Urbanization as a pattern: the nineteenth-century trend reviewed

The city assumes power: looking at the city from the perspective of power

Calcutta becomes a city of palaces: looking at the city from the perspective of morphology

The city in decline: its history, heritage and identity

The economic milieu in which the city grew

De-industrialization, de-urbanization and the advent of British capital

The money culture of Calcutta: an eighteenth- and nineteenth century profile

The fiscal face of Calcutta in the phase of its early growth

Did Calcutta grow industrially?

Bengali business enterprise in Calcutta in the early colonial era

Confronting radical changes: Calcutta in the Swadeshi years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sen, Ranjit, author. Calcutta in colonial transition

ISBN:

9781138366916

1138366919

OCLC:

1076733960

Publisher Number:

99981100940