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Calcutta mosaic : essays and interviews on the minority communities of Calcutta
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ISBN: 1283378752 9786613378750 1843318059 8190583557 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Delhi : Anthem Press,

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‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.

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Minorities --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Calcutta (India) --- Calcutta Corporation (India) --- Calcutta Municipal Corporation (India) --- Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kalikātā (India) --- Kalkatʻay (India) --- Kalkatʻa (India) --- Kalakattā (India) --- Kalkatah (India) --- Kalakātā Purasabhā (India) --- Municipal Corporation of Calcutta (India) --- Kolkata (India) --- Population. --- Popular culture --- India --- History --- Social life and customs. --- Minorities. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Sealdah (India) --- Kalkutta (India) --- Caligardamana (India) --- Calcuta (India) --- Kalkuta (India) --- Kälkätä (India) --- Горад Калькута (India) --- Horad Kalʹkuta (India) --- Калькута (India) --- Колката (India) --- Καλκούτα (India) --- Kalkouta (India) --- Kolkato (India) --- 콜카타 (India) --- Калькуттæ (India) --- Kalʹkuttæ (India) --- קולקטה (India) --- Ḳolḳaṭah (India) --- Калькутта (India) --- コルカタ (India) --- Korukata (India) --- Колкате (India) --- Kolkate (India) --- Kolkat (India) --- קאלקאטא (India) --- 加尔各答 (India) --- Jia'ergeda (India)


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A hygienic city-nation : space, community, and everyday life in colonial Calcutta
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ISBN: 1108883427 1108779654 1108489893 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Calcutta, the centre of British imperial power in India, figures in scholarship as the locus of colonialism and the hotbed of anti-colonial nationalist movements. Yet, historians have largely ignored how the city shaped these movements. A Hygienic City-Nation is the first academic work that examines everyday urban formations in the colonial city that informed the broad global forces of imperialism, nationalism, and urbanism, and were, in turn, shaped by them. Drawing on previously unexplored archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and neighbourhood clubs, the author uncovers hidden stories of the city at the everyday level of neighbourhoods or paras, where kinship-like ties, caste, religion, and ethnicity constituted new urban modernity. Ghosh focuses on an emergent discourse on Hindu spatial hygiene that powered nationalist pedagogic efforts to train city dwellers in conduct fit for the city-nation. In such pedagogic efforts, upper-caste Bengalis were pitted against the lower-caste working poor and featured as ideal inhabitants of the city: the citizen.

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