City of Dreadful Night: Death, Gold and Calcutta in the European Consciousness
When Kipling called Calcutta a death bringing, pestilential city, he was drawing upon rhetoric that had gained currency among the British inhabitants of Calcutta from its inception in 1699.Nor was the reputation undeserved. Obituary notices, epitaphs and grave inscriptions preserve ample evidence of...
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Sarat Centenary College
2022-01-01
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| Series: | PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies |
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