Contributions

  • Kolkata Heritage Photo Project - Contributor

Publication

2008 - H. Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

35,750 words, Guess

Page Count

143 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-103775721061
  • ISBN-139783775721066
  • OCLC Control Number183257831
  • Better World BooksP8-BQJ-279
  • Open LibraryOL45077531M

Classifications

  • LCCNA1508.C2
  • LCCNA1508.C2 C35 2008

Alternate Titles

  • Chitpur Road neighborhoods

Description

"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 Mogul architecture with more classical elements. Today, the erstwhile magnificent villas and palaces retain only a trace of their former splendor, and it seems only a matter of time before the last stone remnants of a once brilliant Bengali upper middle class disappear for good. Under the guidance of Peter Bialobrzeski, twenty-one photography students from the University of the Arts Bremen captured the fading, crumbling grandeur of this culturally rich heirloom as part of the Kolkata Heritage photo Project."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Calcutta: Chitpur Road neighborhoodsH. Cantz2008-01-01

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