Calcutta (Cities of the Imagination)
Contributors: Anita Desai (Foreword)
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
Published: May 21, 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781902669595
Subjects: Asian studies; Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Travel & holiday guides; India; History: World
First sentence: Early European navigational maps of the Bay of Bengal, such as Thomas Bowrey's of 1687 and George Herron's of 1690, do not show Calcutta or the fishing village of Kolikata, but they do show neighboring Satanuti (Chuttanuty/Soota Loota), a weavers' village, on the eastern bank of the Hugli, and Gobindapur (Govindpore).