CALCUTTA, PAST AND PRESENT. Kathleen Blechynden
Language: English Publication details: Kolkata Aruna Prakashan 2013/01/01Edition: 1Description: 206ISBN:- 9789380755373
- 954.147 KAT/CA
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Contents: 1. Early years. 2. The siege and capture. 3. Recovery and after. 4. Public buildings. 5. In Hastings’ day. 6. Social life. 7. The churches. 8. Told by the tombs. 9. Streets and houses. 10. Near and far. Index.
In this book the author’s aim has not been to give any account of the great deeds by which the men of old Calcutta laid the foundations of the British Empire in the East, but rather to try and depict the lives they led, their daily cares and amusements, the wives and daughters who lightened their exile the houses in which they dwelt, the servants who waited on them, the food they ate, the wines they drank, the scenes amid which they moved, the graves in which they laid their loves ones or sank themselves to rest.
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