India Calcutta Kolkata CULTURE 1972 Anthropology 1st Ed Slums Goondas Punjabis

by Surajit Sinha

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Cultural Profile of Calcutta Edited by Surajit Sinha Published by The Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta, 1972. First Edition. Very good hardcover, in good price-cipped dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, index, 283 pages. Sinha, a prominent anthropologist and director of the Anthropological Survey of India, compiled this 283-page volume as the outcome of a January 1970 seminar titled "Cultural Profile of Calcutta." Published during a turbulent period in the city’s history—marked by the Naxalite movement, political violence, and the 1971 influx of refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)—the book captures Calcutta’s complex identity amid social upheaval. The Indian Anthropological Society, supported by a grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), aimed to document the city’s cultural dynamics, reflecting a broader 1970s trend of urban anthropology in India. The volume, an 8vo hardcover, features a cloth binding with a dustjacket designed by Purnima Sinha, which attempts to graphically depict the seminar’s spirit. It includes contributions from a diverse group of scholars—Ajita Chakraborty (psychiatry), Alokeranjan Dasgupta (Bengali literature), Benoy Ghose (social history), and Dikshit Sinha (anthropology), among others—covering topics from urban elites and business executives to goondas (thugs) and slum-dwellers. The book examines Calcutta

• Publisher: The Indian Anthropological Society
• Year: 1972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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