| Description |
302 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
The scent behind the smell / Simon Winchester -- Quintessential Calcutta / Rupert Winchester -- Calcutta: a brief history / Simon & Rupert Wincheser -- Days and nights in Calcutta / Clarke Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee -- Tithidore / Buddhadev Bose -- Autobiography of an unknown Indian / N.C. Chaudhuri -- Thy hand great Anarch! / N.C. Chaudhuri -- White Mughals / William Dalrymple -- The Calcutta of Begum Johnson / Ivor Edwards-Stuart -- Letter XV from original letters from India, 1779-1815 / Eliza Fay -- Show your tongue / Günter Grass -- In Clive's footsteps / Peter Holt -- A tale of two cities / Rudyard Kipling -- City of Joy / Dominique Lapierre -- Wrong side of the tracks / Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark -- The last look / Susanna Moore -- Calcutta / Geoffrey Moorhouse -- Places / James Morris -- India, a million mutinies now / V.S. Naipul -- Begums, thugs and White mughals: the journals of Fanny Parkes / Fanny Parkes -- Goodbye to Calcutta / Alan Ross -- A suitable boy / Vikram Seth -- Flute-music / Rabindranath Tagore -- The great railway bazaar / Paul Theroux -- Following the equator / Mark Twain |
| Summary |
Includes extracts by V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, Rudyard Kipling, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Rabindranath Tagore, N.C. Chaudhuri, Gunter Grass, Dominique Lapierre, James Morris, Mark Twain, and Vikram Seth |
| Analysis |
Calcutta (India) |
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India |
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Description and travel |
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Social conditions |
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History |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes biographies : pages 293-298 |
| SUBJECT |
Kolkata (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073732 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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Kolkata (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073732 -- Socail life and customs
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Kolkata (India) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018811
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Winchester, Rupert.
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| ISBN |
1740595874 : |
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