Calcutta
Peter Bialobrzeski, Florian Hanig, Manish Chakraborti • Hatje Cantz • ISBN 9783775721066
Calcutta
Peter Bialobrzeski, Florian Hanig, Manish Chakraborti • Hatje Cantz • ISBN-13 9783775721066
ISBN-10 Not provided • 2008
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ISBN 9783775721066 • Completeness 48
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In nineteenth-century Calcutta, a financially strong Indian elite emerged under the rule of the British East India Company, building up eclectic Bengali equivalents of industrialists' mansions, apparent stylistic blends of traditional Mughal architecture with more classical elements. Today the erstwhile magnificent villas and palaces retain only a shred of their former splendor, and it seems only a matter of time before the last stony reminders of a once brilliant Bengali upper middle class disappear for good.
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