1940s India
Amrita Bazar Patrika
Anandabazar Patrika
Anna Sailer
Anwesha Roy
Anwesha Sengupta
Bengal National Chamber
Bengal partition history
Burning Ghat
Calcutta Improvement Trust
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Colonial Administration
Communal Violence in India
communal violence research
creative culture in mid-century Calcutta
Debjani Sengupta
Deputy Commissioner
Direct Action Day
East Bengal
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Gargi Chakravartty
Great Calcutta Killing
Human Suffering
Indian Music and Poetry
Indian National Army Men
Institutionalised Riot Systems
Iron Gates
Ishan Mukherjee
Janam Mukherjee
Jute Mill
Kidderpore Dock
literary historiography India
Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti
Muslim League
Nariaki Nakazato
North Calcutta
Park Circus
Partho Datta
postcolonial urban studies
Protest in India
Rabindranath Tagore
Rajarshi Chunder
refugee migration analysis
Samar Sen
Sanjukta Ghosh
Sealdah Station
Second World War
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Siddhartha Guha Ray
Social Science Press
Sohini Majumdar
Sukanya Mitra
Sumit Sarkar
Swagata Mazumdar
Tram Workers
Uditi Sen
Urban Planning in India
urban political movements
War Rumour
West Bengal
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781032652856
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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’.
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.
