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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta scans the old areas of Calcutta, where heritage houses and history fill every crowded lane and secret courtyard. Languishing in another time and place, at the end of narrow lanes and behind untidy shop-fronts, Calcutta’s rich heritage waits to be rediscovered. The ‘Great Houses’ of Calcutta are an important but forgotten part of Calcutta’s architectural history. While British colonial architecture and lifestyle has been extensively photographed and written about, very little has been done on the indigenous equivalent. Focussing on Calcutta’s heritage mansions and palaces, The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta, makes an important contribution to the architectural history of both Calcutta and India. The Forgotten Palaces of Calcutta received the Best Book Award, 2007, in Book Cover Category from the Federation of Indian Publishers.
Author: Jeremiah P. Losty
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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This illustrated book provides an account of the architectural and topographical history of Calcutta, which in 1990 celebrates the 300th anniversary of its foundation. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title at The British Library, its illustrations are drawn mainly from the collection of plans, prints and drawings at the India Office Library and 25 are reproduced in colour. A work of reference for historians of India and the architecture of the Raj, it also has much to interest the general reader, print collectors and those who know modern Calcutta.
Author: Calcutta. [Appendix.]
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Author: C. A. Parkhurst
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Category : Kolkata (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Author: Evan Cotton
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Category : Calcutta (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Author: Joanne Taylor
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ISBN: 9789383098903
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Kolkata (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Neeta Das
Publisher: Marg Publications
ISBN: 9788192110691
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A cultural portrait of the little-known about captital of Bengal, Murshidabad.
Author: Madhavi Desai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893475
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.
Author: Eicher Goodearth Limited
Publisher: Goodearth Publications
ISBN: 9380262159
Category : Kolkata (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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