Calcutta: Society and Change 1690-1990

by Richard Stevenson

Calcutta, for whose slums and poverty many moan, has been a city swept by various imported ideas and vibrant with indigenous ones. In the process it has evolved into a creative center, especially in the fields of arts, thought, and science. Controversy is what the city has thrived upon, despite its multiplicity of problems. The book deals with some of the controversies and their contribution to contemporary society and culture." a very well informed account-highly perceptive-of intellectual trends and related changes in Calcutta."Robert J. CraneFord-Maxwell Professor of South Asia HistorySyracuse University

186 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2005

About the author

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Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.

Reviews

[Somyajeet · Rating 4 out of 5]

These few days I held a mirror, this book. This mirror gave me, a simple layman, glimpses of the past of our beloved city, Calcutta, and of course, its constructing blocks: the people. One gets to have an eyeful of how their religious, political, cultural and spiritual life was. Also through this work we become witness, in an abridged way, to the rise, fall and rise again of our past.