Calcutta

Tanika Sarkar is retired professor of History at JNU, Delhi. Her most recent publication is Rebels, Wives and Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, and Seagull, New York, 2009.                                                         Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is a professor of Asian History at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. His most recent publication is From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2015.

• 1. Introduction: Calcutta in History and Historiography - Sekhar BandyopadhyayOrdering the urban space2. The Flute (1932) - Rabindranath Tagore (translated by Sumit Sarkar) 3. Calcutta on the Threshold of the 1940s - Partho Datta, Rajarshi ChunderWar, famine and unrest5. The Elusive Chase: ‘War Rumour’ in Calcutta during the Second World War - Ishan Mukherjee 6. Japan Attacks - Janam Mukherjee 7. When Mill Sirens Rang out Danger: The Calcutta Jute Mill Belt in the Second World War - Anna Sailer 8. Protest and Politics: Story of Calcutta Tram Workers 1940-47 - Siddhartha Guha Ray 9. Emergence of Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti in the Forties—Gargi Chakravartty 10. Famine, Food and the Politics of Survival in Calcutta: 1943–50 - Sanjukta GhoshCommunal relations: Solidarities and violence11. On a Birthday (1946) -Samar Sen (translated by Sumit Sarkar) 12. A Different Calcutta: INA Trials and Hindu-Muslim Solidarity in 1945 and 1946- Sohini Majumdar 13. The Role of Colonial Administration, ‘Riot Systems’ and Local Networks during the Calcutta Disturbances of August 1946 - Nariaki Nakazato 14. A City Feeding on Itself: Riots, Testimonies and Literatures of the 1940s in Calcutta - Debjani Sengupta 15. Calcutta and its Struggle for Peace: Anti-Communal Resistance, 1946–47Post Colonial Transition16. Calcutta, a City in Transition: Expectations and Anxieties of Freedom, 1947–50 - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 17. Visually Imagining the City: Urban Planning in 1950s Calcutta and Surjyatoran - Sukanya Mitra 18. Building Bijaygarh: A Microhistory of Refugee Squatting in Calcutta - Uditi Sen 19. Becoming a Minority Community: Calcutta’s Muslims after Partition - Anwesha Sengupta 20. I Had a Dream One Night (1929) Rabindranath Tagore (translated by Swagata Mazumdar) 21. Time in Place: Urban Culture in Decades of Crisis - Tanika Sarkar