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Published by St Martin's Press, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0312147031ISBN 13: 9780312147037
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. McCurdy, Michael (illustrator). First Thus. Cream-color hardback, black cloth spine with gold-color lettering, xii, 52 pp., woodcut illustrations throughout, unclipped illustrated jacket. First printing thus with complete number line. Excellent condition. Mahatma Gandi was "enraptured" by this play.
Published by Lotus Collection, New Delhi, 2005
ISBN 10: 8174362606ISBN 13: 9788174362605
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. papered boards, dust jacket, 255 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by I.B. Tauris, 2009
ISBN 10: 1845118049ISBN 13: 9781845118044
Seller: Swan Trading Company, GEORGETOWN, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover shows only light cover wear. Text is unmarked and binding tight. Ships FAST!.
Published by Signal Books, 2003
ISBN 10: 1902669592ISBN 13: 9781902669595
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. XVI-255 pages, Illustrations, maps. ; 21 cm. 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, Günter 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 both India s capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its grand neo-classical 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 savage 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 Tagore, Ray and Jamini Roy; College Street and the annual book fair; a city of learning and books. CITY OF DURGA AND KALI: Kumortuli s holy images and the flamboyant annual Durga Puja; Kalighat Temple and Kali, Calcutta s divine and terrible protectress. CITY OF PALACES: Grand colonial monuments and crumbling mansions of the Bengali babus; a mix of Palladian, Baroque, Rococo, Gothic, Hindu and Islamic architecture.