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Zustand: New. pp. [x] + 306, Frontispiece Illus.

Zustand: New. pp. 428 Illus.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. This collection examines Calcutta's rapid transformation from a cluster of three villages into the second city of the British Empire. Bidisha Chakraborty and Sarmistha De, two talented archivists, remind us that the ancient and crumbling British legacy scattered all around Calcutta was once a fledgling imperial dream of the most astounding scope. The English East India Company started out as a trading company but soon found itself saddled with administrative responsibilities. The British built Calcutta around Fort William, not just for the burgeoning European population but also as the nerve centre of their growing Indian empire. As word spread about how the British wanted to make Calcutta the 'London of the East', people from all over Bengal, India and the rest of the world flocked to Calcutta throughout the nineteenth century. This book delves into several archival sources and unearths not just the grandeur of such an ambitious undertaking but also the meticulous planning that went with it. Through rare photographs, plans, blueprints and other documentary evidence we get a glimpse of Calcutta as the British wanted the city to be. This book shows not just how much they achieved but also the inevitable resistance that they faced. One is also made aware of the complex coloniser-colonised dialectic that lay behind the growth of a city like Calcutta.…

Zustand: New. pp. xvi + 260.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Introduction. 1. The European settlement in India: a colony not in the making. 2. Anatomy of European destitution in India. 3. The ailing self: prognosis and prescription. 4. White prostitutes: imperial morality in the red. 5. White prisoners: discipline and pamper. Conclusion. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. "Even as Victorian England sought means and methods to 'manage' its poor through new laws, the colonial rulers of India found the European poor in India a threat to the myth of superiority and homogeneity they were busy building up for the British ruling class. This study focuses on this particular section of European settlers in India, referred to in contemporary official papers as the 'low Europeans' or 'mean whites'; which loosely meant a white underclass comprising destitutes, vagrants, convicts, lunatics and prostitutes. Primarily a study of the European underworld and marginal classes in two Presidencies of Colonial India, viz. Calcutta and Bombay, the condition of the marginal Europeans and white underworld in the mofussil and railway cantonment areas also comes under its purview. The genesis of delinquency and marginality among Europeans in India; manifestations of the problem; reactions of different sections of society to the problem; debates among the ruling class about the problem, its origin and solution, remedial measures taken by the administration as well as private initiatives are closely analysed.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The present volume of 'Cultural Exchange through Folklore' has been composed into two parts as it's a huge collection of research articles on Post-Modern Observations & Overview on Cultural Exchange through Narratives. In the first part there are research articles and valuable observations of the experienced and the profound scholars with the scholarly articles of the new generation. The second part is fully the collection of new research articles. Both the volumes are contained of the research papers from all over India and Bangladesh. In the first part we can found the researches on New Theories and Approaches of Models and Definition of Folk Narrative Research, Revised Strategies of Story Telling and Digitization of Folk Narrative. On the other hand in the second part we can found the researches on Cross Cultural Speech Behaviour: A Communicative Pragmatic Linguistic Approach, Heritage of Oral Tradition, Revaluation of Cultural Identity and The Effectiveness of Lexical, Structural, Stylistic and domain specific features of Narratives. These socio-cultural studies on the modern world and the sociological approaches of research can broaden up the sphere of new research area of Folkloricstics.…