Author: Geoffrey Moorhouse
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1994/9
Language: English
Pages: 393
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140095578
Description
Kipling called it The City of Dreadful Night-a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease.
Yet Calcutta, the Victorian seat of the British Raj, is the second city in the Commonwealth, the fourth city in the world. Amazingly, Geoffrey Moorhouse’s Black and memorable text, as The Times called it, is the first full-length study of Calcutta since 1918.
REVIEWS
His rich and ominous book is so far removed from the usual reportage, that it is difficult to refute its prognosis, he is painfully, shamingly illuminating.
-Observer
The book is organized out of a profound understanding of the true issues and is brilliantly executed-Paul Scott in the Guardian
Geoffrey Moorhouse , like another Zola, plunges into this hell. Dissecting it, almost lovingly, he discovers aspects of the human spirit, both Indian and universal, out of which the reader may trace some sort of pattern in the chaos.
-Sunday Telegraph
A storehouse of information.
-Hindusthan Standard
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Ultimate Experience
Imperial City
Poverty
Wealth
Migrants
Bengalis
People, People
Faded Glory
The Petrifying Jungle
The Road to Revolution
Zindabad
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SOURCE NOTES
INDEX