Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a

This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire mer

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