Calcutta: The Stormy Decades - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tanika Sarkar, Sekhar BandyopadhyayTheme:Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/IndianPublish date:6/21/2017Pages:486
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138019324ISBN-10:1138019321UPC:9781138019324Book Category:History, Literary Collections, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, WorldBook Topic:AsianSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.708Product ID:SCHCGP2ZGM
Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature, art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature of any city but is interestingly characteristic of Calcutta. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades, as against the entire historical period of a city. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city 'emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past'.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138019324ISBN-10:1138019321UPC:9781138019324Book Category:History, Literary Collections, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, WorldBook Topic:AsianSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.708Product ID:SCHCGP2ZGM
Tanika Sarkar is retired professor of History at JNU, Delhi. Her most recent publication is Rebels, Wives and Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, and Seagull, New York, 2009. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is a professor of Asian History at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. His most recent publication is From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2015.
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