Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City

by Siddhartha Sen

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture and urban planning of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities' architecture and urban planning. What Siddhartha Sen shows is the transformation of a colonial city into a Marxist one -- and ongoing attempts to further transform Kolkata...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462981116
• ISBN13: 9789462981119
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"