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Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and other Forgotten Lives

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ISBN Number 9788119626144
Author Information Devasis Chattopadhyay
Copyright Year 2024
Edition Number 1st Edition
Format Book
Binding Paperback
Dimensions (H x W x D) 21.5 x 14 x 2 (cms)
Language English
Imprint Niyogi Books
Page Count 316 Pages
Publication Date August, 2024
Stock Status In Stock

Availability: 1 in stock

Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is a fascinating collection of nine carefully curated chronicles related to the city in the 19th century.They are rare to find. Some of them were discovered inside dusty files in government archives, many were retrieved from the pages of old newspapers, and others were prised out of private family memoirs. They tell us relatively unknown narratives about Kolkata and the fascinating accounts surrounding them.The protagonists are middle to junior civil or military officials and puisne judges, along with an opera impresario, an entertainer, a piano tuner, a mercenary, a hotelier, a writer, a publisher, a lawyer, and a real-life police detective-cum-crime writer.Through this book, we step back in time to look at this period of change and upheaval, when Kolkata’s syncretic identity was moulded in part by these European and American settlers when the things we take for granted today were yet to be invented or experienced. And yet, they made astonishing contributions. These are those forgotten stories.

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