A City in the Making Aspects of Calcutta's Early Growth by Ranabir Ray Choudhury
When Job Charnock landed at Sutanati in 1690 the place was no more than an ordinary Bengal village on the banks of the Hooghly. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it was being described as the second city of the British Empire. With the help of archival records, this volume plots the various stages of the journey on the part of the three villages of Sutanati, Kalikata and Gobindapur which collectively came to be called Calcutta (renamed Kolkata).
- Author:Ranabir Ray Choudhury
- Binding Type:Hardcover
- ISBN:9789385285288
- Total Pages:564
- Publishing Year:2016
- Language:English