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... article uncovers the emergence of a housing and rent market in Calcutta predicated on notions of housing rights as an outgrowth of worker protest and militancy, on the one hand, and market speculation in land and housing on the other. This tension opened up a space for colonial intervention, one that drew...

...Brian A. Hatcher © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Indigent Brahmans, Industrious Pandits: Bourgeois Ideology and Sanskrit Pandits in Colonial Calcutta Brian A. Hatcher Introduction...

...Shayoni Mitra The Colonial Staged: Theatre in Colonial Calcutta Sudipto Chatterjee London: Seagull Books, 2007 160 pp., $84.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2008 The Ottoman Balkans, 1750–  1830 in the process...

..., nostalgic view we approach literary culture in Awadh prospectively and multilingually and broaden our lens to consider not just the capitals, Faizabad and Lucknow, but also the qasbas (small towns), the small rural courts, the nearby growing city of Banaras, and the colonial capital of Calcutta, a different...

... within the scholarship on the development of architectural and town-planning theories during the early decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on Calcutta and Bombay—two central cities of the British Empire—as case studies, I will trace the history of how the housing market became a tradeable object...

... a slight decentering of India in order to contemplate a rebalanced Indian Ocean as narrated from the peninsular Middle East outward. As a result, the points of departure and return suggested here move along a more heterogeneous set of oceanic axes running from Mecca to Calcutta, Singapore to Jidda...

...Mana Kia This article examines the figure of the Indian friend in late nineteenth-century Persian-language modernist writings, specifically those by Fath ‘Alī Ākhūndzādah, Jamāl al-Dīn “al-Afghānī,” and writers published in the Calcutta newspaper Habl al-Matīn . These writings drew on older...

... of the Indian film industry. Functioning from Calcutta, it was not just a well-equipped studio; it was a sys- tem, a way of life for the people working with it. . . . Sircar wanted not just cinema halls and a stu- dio; he wanted a system. A pervasive, self-supporting...

...-Books at the Primary Level of Education in West Bengal . Calcutta: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Working Paper No. 78. Poromesh , Acharya . 1986 . ‘Development of Modern Language Text-Books and the Social Context in 19th Century Bengal,’ Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. XXI...

... Jogeshchandra , ed. Bankim Rachanabali , vol. 2 . Calcutta : Sahitya Sansad , 1954 . Bandyopadhyay Asit Kumar , ed. Pandit Mrityunjoy Vidyalankar Granthabali . Calcutta : Sahitya Sansad , 1995 . Bandyopadhyay Brajendranath , ed. Sambadpatre Shekaler Katha , vol. 1 . Calcutta...

..., oh devoted Mother, you have made into Bengalis, not men. —Rabindranath Tagore, “Bongo Mata” (“Mother Bengal”) oal!” thundered eighty thousand spectators in Calcutta’s soccer stadium when Abilash Ghosh...

... and practice opiate of the masses. of development” the centerpiece of its political inter- Whatever the motivation of the Soviet diplomats, in ventions. As the editors of a recent volume of essays by the cultural universe of Calcutta, the capital of the intellectual-activists of the Indian human...

..., Batavia (1619), and Cape Town (1652), French Pondicherry (1674), and English New York, Madras (1639), Bombay (1661), and Calcutta (1686) were all new port cities, built respectively on similar Dutch, French, and English lines, in relation to one another, as “colonial port cities.” 22 Ports...

... underlying the govern- against imperialism, an alien political and economic ment’s plan were not difficult to see: firstly, to divide the force that stood against the interests of the population troublesome Bengalis of Calcutta from the troublesome of the Indian subcontinent as a whole,” a sentiment...

... by the Bredford Cinematograph milestones in the indigenization of cinema in Company based in Calcutta. The screening this land, were not highlighted in Bangladesh program included The Diamond Jubilee Procession cinema history, as these cannot be easily...

...Harbans Mukhia Copyright 1985: Regents of University of California 1985 REFERENCES Fazl , Abul , ( 1867 ). Ain-i Akbari . Persian text, ed. I. Blochmann. (Calcutta). Babur , ( 1970 ). Babur Nama . tr. A.S. Beveridge. (New Delhi) (reprint of the original 1922 edition...

... significant success since it made the political landscape more manageable and hence controllable. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Ahmad Muzaffar . Communists Challenge Imperialism from the Dock . Calcutta : National Book Agency , 1967 . ———. Myself and the Communist...

... and Economic Change in Western India, 1860–1920“, The Journal of Peasant Studies . Smith Colonel Baird , ( 1861 ). Report on the Commercial Condition of N.W.P . (Roorkee: Government Press); Further Report on the N.W.P. Famine of 1860–61 (Calcutta: Government Press) Bhatia , B.M. , ( 1963...

... Department of the Government of India , vol. 3 , 502 – 4 . Calcutta : Military Department Press , 1902 . Ghosh Durba . Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Gopal S. British Policy...

... of the wooden printing This was obviously a boon for regions such as press, largely limited to sites like Goa, Batavia, Iran with no previous tradition of printing and and Calcutta, to which it could be transported hence no ready supply of parts or skilled work...