Calcutta: A Cultural History by Krishna Dutta

Calcutta: A Cultural History

Krishna Dutta

255 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
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Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulder with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique hi...

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