Calcutta And Calcuttans From Dihi To Megalopolis

Author : Frederic C. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315479231

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Calcutta Poor by Frederic C. Thomas Pdf

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.

Author : Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Robert B. Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351905565

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Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century by Allen G. Noble,Frank J. Costa,Robert B. Kent Pdf

Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar political and ideological blocs; political decentralization and concurrent economic centralization including the growth of multi-national corporations; devolution of centralized planning powers to regions and localities, and the rise and acceptance of sustainable development concepts. The book is divided into five parts addressing: 1 - adjustments to political, economic and social change; 2 the problems of urban housing and housing and health; 3 - adjustments to environmental change, development policies and sustainability; 4 - the problem of rapid urban growth and mega cities; 5 - adjustments of changing urban networks. The contributors are from several countries worldwide and the chapters examine the issues at a global level.

Author : Sumana Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000603712

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Kolkata — The Colonial City in Transition by Sumana Bandyopadhyay Pdf

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a range of contemporary urban issues. It examines the spatial consequences of urban sprawl, land-use changes, ecological crisis, climate change, critical disasters, dynamics of the peri-urban interface, neighborhood restructuring, debates around heritage conservation, housing poverty, gray spaces, governance and the political landscape of the city. This book will be useful to students, teachers, and researchers of geography, especially human geography and urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning, social geography, governance, ecology, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also benefit urban planners, development professionals, and those interested in the study of the city of Kolkata and its transformations.

Author : Jenia Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811539510

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Blue Infrastructures by Jenia Mukherjee Pdf

This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in turn, could get determined by political fate, economic calculations and social livelihoods across changing political-economic imperatives and with large-scale implications on urban sustainability. Employing historical urban political ecology (HUPE) as the methodological framework by combining urban environmental history and urban political ecology, the book studies the changing urban environmental equations through several centuries, and its impact on the city and its people. Weaving the past, present and posterity of deltaic Kolkata, the book demonstrates that it is in these ‘blue infrastructures’ that the anecdote of origin, the account of functioning and the apprehension of survival of the city is rooted. By emphasizing the ecology ‘of’ cities instead of ecology ‘in’ cities approach, the book exposes the limitations of contemporary ecological restructuring efforts regarding Indian cities. Further, it offers a blueprint for future innovative and empirical research focusing on other major cities. Accordingly, this topical and original book will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental humanities, political ecology and urban studies.

Author : Debjani Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425742

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta by Debjani Bhattacharyya Pdf

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world's largest tidal delta.

Author : Kees Rookmaaker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004691544

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The Rhinoceros of South Asia by Kees Rookmaaker Pdf

The rhinoceros is an iconic animal. Three species once inhabited South Asia, two of which disappeared over a century ago. This survey aims to reconstruct the historical distribution of these large mammals resulting in new maps showing the extent of their occurrences. Thousands of sources varied in time and nature are used to study the interactions between man and rhinoceros. The text is supported by over 700 illustrations and 38 maps showing the importance of the rhinoceros in the scientific and cultural fabric of Asia and beyond.

Author : Amalendu Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015022930583

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Calcutta, an Annotated Bibliography by Amalendu Ray Pdf

Author : Sanghamitra Saha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110830234

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A Handbook of West Bengal by Sanghamitra Saha Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015063188851

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Indian Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monolina Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : MINN:31951P008016490

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Locating Identities by Monolina Bhattacharyya Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : South Asia
ISBN : UCAL:B5101788

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Accessions List, South Asia by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi Pdf

Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373971

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : 8170740738

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From Marsh to Township, East of Calcutta by Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015036684556

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Bengal, Past & Present by Anonim Pdf

Author : Siti Farhan Mohamed
Publisher : Alaf 21
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Kerana Dikau by Siti Farhan Mohamed Pdf

Angin malam berhembus lembut. Me­nyegarkan tubuh gadis itu yang dibaluti pakaian cantik. Bibirnya mengukir se­nyuman, menyaksikan keindahan ma­lam yang penuh berwarna-warni. Di dada langit, warna jingga kemerah-merahan masih samar-samar kelihatan me­nanda­kan tirai malam baharu sahaja berlabuh. Cuaca cukup baik dengan bintang berkerlipan. Cahaya bulan yang malu berselindung di sebalik dedaun kelapa meliuk-lintuk dipuput angin. Alam seakan-akan turut bergembira meraikan malam itu. Malam pe­nyatuan jiwa mungkin untuk selama-lamanya. Sitah tersenyum lagi. Kakinya mengorak langkah dalam gementar. Ruang tengah banglo mewah itu sesak dengan para tetamu yang pelbagai gelagat. Setiap kali berselisih de­ngan orang-orang kampung, Sitah tidak lupa me­nyapa mesra. Tangannya masih menggenggam erat sebuah bung­kusan be­reben merah. Dia menuju ke bilik ber­langsir ungu muda yang terhias cantik. Hatinya tidak sabar-sabar lagi untuk me­nemui orang yang sangat dirindui. Langkah Sitah semakin lebar.