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Author(s): Tanika Sarkar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
ISBN(s): 9781351581721, 1351581724
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.63 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1351581724

ISBN 13: 9781351581721 

Author: Tanika Sarkar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 

Politics and culture are organically related in the city of Calcutta. The period (1940s to 1950s), was chaotic and turbulent, yet, this was also a time of significant creativity in literature,  art, films and music in the city. This is an unusual feature of any city but is interestingly characteristic of Calcutta. The originality of the work lies in blending poetry with historical writing, retaining the essence of both forms against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of the critical decades, as against the entire historical period of a city. This historical method together with twenty-one papers give the reader a sense of the pulse of this complex city ‘emerging creatively and chaotically from its colonial past’.

Table of contents:

Bandyopadhyay

Ordering the urban space

  1. The Flute (1932) – Rabindranath Tagore (translated by Sumit Sarkar)

  2. Calcutta on the Threshold of the 1940s – Partho Datta, Rajarshi Chunder

War, famine and unrest

  1. The Elusive Chase: ‘War Rumour’ in Calcutta during the Second World War – Ishan Mukherjee

  2. Japan Attacks – Janam Mukherjee

  3. When Mill Sirens Rang out Danger: The Calcutta Jute Mill Belt in the Second World War – Anna Sailer

  4. Protest and Politics: Story of Calcutta Tram Workers 1940-47 – Siddhartha Guha Ray

  5. Emergence of Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti in the Forties — Gargi Chakravartty

  6. Famine, Food and the Politics of Survival in Calcutta: 1943–50 – Sanjukta Ghosh

Communal relations: Solidarities and violence

  1. On a Birthday (1946) – Samar Sen (translated by Sumit Sarkar)

  2. A Different Calcutta: INA Trials and Hindu-Muslim Solidarity in 1945 and 1946 – Sohini Majumdar

  3. The Role of Colonial Administration, ‘Riot Systems’ and Local Networks during the Calcutta Disturbances of August 1946 – Nariaki Nakazato

  4. A City Feeding on Itself: Riots, Testimonies and Literatures of the 1940s in Calcutta – Debjani Sengupta

  5. Calcutta and its Struggle for Peace: Anti-Communal Resistance, 1946–47

Post Colonial Transition

  1. Calcutta, a City in Transition: Expectations and Anxieties of Freedom, 1947–50 – Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

  2. Visually Imagining the City: Urban Planning in 1950s Calcutta and Surjyatoran – Sukanya Mitra

  3. Building Bijaygarh: A Microhistory of Refugee Squatting in Calcutta – Uditi Sen

  4. Becoming a Minority Community: Calcutta’s Muslims after Partition – Anwesha Sengupta

  5. I Had a Dream One Night (1929) – Rabindranath Tagore (translated by Swagata Mazumdar)

  6. Time in Place: Urban Culture in Decades of Crisis – Tanika Sarkar

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