Birth of a Colonial City: Calcutta

by Ranjit Sen

Long before Calcutta was 'discovered' by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s.

Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036773155X
• ISBN13: 9780367731557
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"