CALCUTTA IN COLONIAL TRANSITION

Preface.Acknowledgements.Note on the text. introduction. 1. Calcutta Grows into a Global City 2. The Global City in Making: The Nineteenth Century 3. Urbanization as a Pattern: The Nineteenth Century Trend Reviewed 4. The City Assumes Power: Looking at The City from The Perspective of Power 5. Calcutta becomes a City of Palaces: Looking at the City from the Perspective of Morphology 6. The City in Decline: Its History, Heritage and Identity 7. The Economic Milieu in which the City Grew 8. De-Industrialization, De-Urbanization and the Advent of British Capital 9. The Money Culture of Calcutta: An Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Profile 10. The Fiscal Face of Calcutta in the Phase of its Early Growth 11