Author: Tanika Sarkar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351581716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
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’.
Calcutta
Author: Tanika Sarkar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351581716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
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’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351581716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
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’.
Let there be Light
Author: Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890114X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the late 1990s. This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945. The arrival of electricity necessitated the introduction of new institutional facilities, and with the growth of technological system, a new business culture grew - there was demand for trained manpower to handle machines and better educational facilities. Taking a broad view of the subject, the narrative of this book is built around the historical experiences of the local Bengali-speaking population. Adopting the social constructionist model, Let There Be Light presents an amalgamation of archival and Indian language source materials to delineate the diverse nature of the appropriation of technological ideas into Indian culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890114X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the late 1990s. This book studies the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance, with the focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945. The arrival of electricity necessitated the introduction of new institutional facilities, and with the growth of technological system, a new business culture grew - there was demand for trained manpower to handle machines and better educational facilities. Taking a broad view of the subject, the narrative of this book is built around the historical experiences of the local Bengali-speaking population. Adopting the social constructionist model, Let There Be Light presents an amalgamation of archival and Indian language source materials to delineate the diverse nature of the appropriation of technological ideas into Indian culture.
The Long 2020
Author: Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819948150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819948150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Price Sources
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Rethinking the Local in Indian History
Author: Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000425525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the ‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000425525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the ‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
Culinary Culture in Colonial India
Author: Utsa Ray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110704281X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"--
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110704281X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"--
Globalization from Below
Author: Gordon Mathews
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415535085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book deals ethnographically with economic globalization from below in its broadest sense, from producers to traders to vendors to consumers across the globe.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415535085
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book deals ethnographically with economic globalization from below in its broadest sense, from producers to traders to vendors to consumers across the globe.
The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
The Indian Trade Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Price Source, Index of Commercial and Economic Publications Currently Received in the Libraries of the Department of Commerce which Contain Current Market Commodity Prices
Author: United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description