Birth of a Colonial City
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...
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...
