A Christmas In Calcutta

Author : AM Sardar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
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Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326803902

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A Christmas in Calcutta by AM Sardar Pdf

Author : Krishna Dutta
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : 1902669592

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Calcutta by Krishna Dutta Pdf

In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of

Author : Robyn Andrews
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132113489

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Christmas in Calcutta by Robyn Andrews Pdf

Calcutta has one of the largest Anglo-Indian populations in the world. This is a community with members who occupy a wide range of socio-economic positions and who live a variety of lives that are always nuanced by their being Anglo-Indian. However, the community has been conveniently stereotyped by the media. Christmas in Calcutta goes beyond the stereotype and delves deep in this study of the Anglo-Indian community in Calcutta. The book comprises life stories, memoir pieces and essays on issues of contemporary interest. It is organised into four sections: ‘Identity’ focuses on the origins, characteristics and the constitutional definition of the community; ‘Faith’, or specifically the practice of Christianity, is the subject of study in the second section; ‘Education’ points out some of the failings of the education system for the community; and the final section, ‘Community Care’, talks about Anglo-Indian care and the consolidation of their community through this care. By drawing on the vital lives of real individuals, the author hopes that there is a change to the lens through which these people of India are viewed.

Author : Janam Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190613068

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Hungry Bengal by Janam Mukherjee Pdf

The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the British/American war against Japan, Bengal stood at the crossroads of complex and contentious structural forces - both domestic and international - which, taken together, defined an era of political uncertainty, social turmoil and collective violence. While for the British the overarching priority was to save the empire from imminent collapse at any cost, for the majority of the Indian population the 1940s were years of acute scarcity, violent dislocation and enduring calamity. In particular there are three major crises that shaped the social, economic and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Hungry Bengal examines these intricately interconnected events, foregrounding the political economy of war and famine in order to analyse the complex nexus of hunger, war and civil violence in colonial Bengal at the twilight of British rule.

Author : Peter Harmsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922896070

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The Darkest Christmas by Peter Harmsen Pdf

December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. From the islands in the Pacific to the China front, from the trenches in Russia to the battlelines in North Africa, in the skies over Europe and in the depths of the Atlantic, men were killing each other in greater numbers than ever before. The Holocaust continued, and innocent civilians were murdered by the thousands throughout the evil Nazi empire, even as the perpetrators celebrated the birth of Christ. At the same time as the slaughter continued unabatedly, throughout the world there were random acts of kindness, born out of an instinctive feeling of the essential brotherhood of man. These gestures also straddled religious barriers and sometimes included those of non-Christian faiths. Even some Japanese, otherwise embarked on a self declared crusade against the West, relented for a few precious hours in acknowledgment of the holiday. At the same time, Christmas 1942 saw the injunction of “good will to man” distorted in ugly and callous ways. At Auschwitz, SS guards played cruel games with their prisoners. In Berlin, the German heart of darkness, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels spent time with his family while still buried in feverish fantasies about the Jewish world conspiracy. Christmas 1942 saw the entire range of man’s conduct towards his fellow man, reflecting the extremes of behavior, good and bad, that World War Two gave rise to. The way the holiday was marked around the world tells a deeper and more universal story of the human condition in extraordinary times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065030672

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The Friend of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Percival, John
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447301233

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Return migration in later life by Percival, John Pdf

The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004955915

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The Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News by Anonim Pdf

Author : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publisher : All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1942-12-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE INDIAN LISTENER by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi Pdf

The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-12-1942 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 96 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. VII, No. 24 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 29-92 ARTICLE: 1. Ideals of Indian Labour 2. Women Generally Speaking.. 3. The War In October- Trafalgar Day Anniversary AUTHOR: 1. The Hon'ble Dr. B. R. Ambedkar 2. Tara Ali Baig KEYWORDS: 1. Labour, Order, Liberty, Ambedkar, AIR Speech 2. Women, Chinese, War Effort, Second World War 3. Trafalgar Day Anniversary Document ID: INL-1942 (J-D) Vol- II (12)

Author : Michael A. Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040011485

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Infrastructure Policy and Inequality by Michael A. Cohen Pdf

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries. Drawing on global and national lessons of COVID-19 and extensive working experience in 55 countries, this book reviews infrastructure policies and performance over several decades and suggests that the “underperformance” of infrastructure could be improved by more attention to users and the demand side, and thereby contribute to overcoming many obstacles facing low-income communities around the world. This book argues that growth is not a necessary condition for sustainability or social justice, and that both are undermined by structural inequalities which reduce the income and opportunities of urban households. More focus on user needs can substantially change the distribution of benefits and the quality of living conditions of low-income people. It provides a unique theoretical and on-the-ground critique of conventional infrastructure practices while illustrating to readers the many positive experiences around the world. More infrastructure is not enough; different and better is needed. This book reviews World Bank experience in launching a 30-year program to alleviate urban poverty through some 7,000 projects, showing that many significant policy changes have led to a big improvement in global urban policies adopted by national and local governments, yet have failed to significantly address and reduce intra-urban inequalities. The audience for this book includes academics, both faculty and advanced graduate students, while also a wider public interested in the prospects for international development.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1559708034

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India by Shashi Tharoor Pdf

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has 17 major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32 percent illiterate, but also one of the worlds largest pools of trained scientists and engineers. Its ageless civilization is the birthplace of four major religions, a dozen different traditions of classical dance, and 300 ways of cooking a potato. Shashi Tharoors INDIA is a fascinating portrait of one of the worlds most interesting countriesits politics, its mentality, and its cultural riches. But it is also an eloquent argument for the importance of India to the future of America and the industrialized world. With the energy and erudition that distinguished his prize-winning novels, Tharoor points out that Indians account for a sixth of the worlds population and their choices will resonate throughout the globe. He deals with this vast theme in a work of remarkable depth and startling originality, combining elements of political scholarship, personal reflection, memoir, fiction, and polemic, all illuminated in vivid and compelling prose.

Author : Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781482814767

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NOTHING BUT! by Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya Pdf

This is the second part of the six part saga titled "NOTHING BUT " and subtitled 'THE LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM.' It is a the story of India's political struggle to get total freedom from the British Raj. The many sacrifices made by our great young martyrs and political leaders. The Indian Army's contribution and sacrifices during the Second World War and the emergence and death of the Indian National Army under Subhas Chander Bose and it covers the period 1920--1947 upto Independence..

Author : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
Publisher : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1959-12-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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AKASHVANI by Publications Division (India),New Delhi Pdf

"Akashvani" (English ) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO ,it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists.It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: Akashvani LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 20-12-1959 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXIV, No. 51 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 9-46 ARTICLE: 1. The Training of Craftsmen 2. The Advent of Homo Sapiens AUTHOR: 1. J. A. Taroporevala 2. Daleep Sen KEYWORDS : Highest resource, craft training, Earliest remains,neanderthals, Document ID : APE-1959-(J-D)-Vol-II-25 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matter published in this and other AIR journals.For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Author : Kazi Jalil Abbasi, Translated by Arif Ansari
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781649837615

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What Days They Were! by Kazi Jalil Abbasi, Translated by Arif Ansari Pdf

Kazi Jalil Abbasi was born in the village of Bayara, district Basti, in Uttar Pradesh state. He attended schools in Basti, Gonda, and Unnao. He was educated at Aligarh Muslim University, Arabic College in Delhi, and Lucknow University. He was an agriculturist, freedom-fighter, lawyer, and a politician. He represented the Domariyaganj constituency of UP in the seventh and eighth Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament. This book is an English translation of his Urdu memoir, Kya Din The!

Author : Jael Miriam Silliman,Jael Silliman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1584653051

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Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames by Jael Miriam Silliman,Jael Silliman Pdf

A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.