Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks
(2022)
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, A. (2023). Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks. In A. Bhattacharya, R. Hibbitt, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century (31-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13060-1_2
This chapter explores the specific subgenre of the ‘Calcutta Handbooks’, reading their representation of mid-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century Calcutta, the capital of British India till 1911, as an attempt to produce the historical significance... Read More about Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks.