A stagnating city
Subtitle: Calcutta in the eighteenth century
By: Ranjit Sen.
Contributors: Institute of Historical Studies (Calcutta, India)
Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Calcutta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Calcutta (India) -- History -- 18th century.
Other titles: Calcutta in the eighteenth century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-294) and index.
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Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter I The Birth of a Garrison TDawr; title: Chapter II Urbanization of a Garrison Town; title: Chapter III Perspectives of Urbanization; title: Chapter IV Was Calcutta a Creation of the English?; title: Chapter V lunidcipal Administration; title: Chapter VI A Pilgrim Centre: Kalighat; title: Chapter Vll The Misery of a Checkmated Soul; title: Chapter VIII The Company's Landlordism and the Calcutta Landlords; title: Chapter IX Calcutta in the Mirror of Archival Records; title: Appendix I Did Calcutta Grow Territorially?; title: Appendix II Why was Population Declining in the Middle of the; title: Eighteenth Century?; title: Appendix III Was the Calcutta Banian A Creation of the English?; title: Appendix IV From Aspiration to Achievement; title: Appendix V Early Urbanization in India; title: A Marxist Study; title: Bibliography; title: Index.