CALCUTTA by Moorhouse, Geoffrey ISBN 075380493X
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Kipling called it 'the City of dreadful night', a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease. Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj, is the second city in the Commonwealth, the fourth city in the world. This is a history-cum-travel book of that city, first published in 1971.
Classic history of the Victorian seat of the British Raj, setting for the notorious Black Hole where 2 score English settlers diedin an 18th century uprising, and today the 4th largest city in the world. Kipling called it the city of dreadful night - a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease. Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj, is the 2nd city in the commonwealth, the 4th city in the world. Geoffrey Moorhouse's history come travel book, 1st published by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson in 1971, remains the classic account.
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[edit] Title
CALCUTTA
[edit] Author
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
[edit] ISBN
075380493X
[edit] Published
19/06/1998
[edit] Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
8.99 (GBP)
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8.99 (GBP)
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