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Redeeming Calcutta : A Portrait of India's Imperial Capital

ISBN: 9780198082187 | 0198082185
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/13/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.
Redeeming Calcutta: A Portrait of India's Imperial Capital takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropoli... MORE

Acknowledgements
Foreword / Calcutta: In Memories and Photographs by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction / A City of Hope and Decay by Steve Raymer
THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Selected Bibliography
Index

Steve Raymer, photojournalist, educator, and author, teaches visual journalism, media ethics, international newsgathering, and war correspondence at Indiana University in Bloomington. Raymer was a National Geographic Magazine staff photographer for 24 years, reporting on the global hunger crisis, the humanitarian work of the International Red Cross in war zones across the world, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is currently Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History, The University of Chicago.


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