TY  - GEN
AU  - Choudhury, Ranabir Ray
TI  - SHAPING OF MODERN CALCUTTA
SN  - 9789391125301 (HB)
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Niyogi Books
KW  - History of Calcutta
KW  - History
KW  - The Lottery Committee
N2  - The volume focuses on the Calcutta Lottery Committee’s work from 1817 till about 1830 when, for all practical purposes, the functions of the committee relating to the improvement of the city ceased effectively. The work done by the committee was phenomenal because the projects conceived and implemented by it still cast their long shadow on life in modern Calcutta.

Thematically, the book is a sequel to A City in the Making: Aspects of Calcutta’s Early Growth, published by Niyogi Books in 2016. That work ended with the formation of the Lottery Committee in 1817: this book takes up the story from there. As with the earlier work, this book is wholly based on archival material available at the West Bengal State Archives.

Among other things, the Lottery Committee built the major arterial roads in the northern and central parts of the city, which in time determined the layout of the contiguous residential areas.


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