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Indigenous Cooperation and the Birth of a Colonial City: Calcutta, c. 1698–17501

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Farhat Hasan
Farhat Hasan
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Aligarh University
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It is a truth that from the western extremity of California to the eastern coast of Japan, there is not a spot where judgement, taste, decency and convenience are so grossly insulted in that scattered and confused chaos of houses, huts, sheds, streets, lanes, alleys, windings, gullies, sinks and tanks which jumbled into an undistinguished mass of filth and corruption, equally offensive to human sense and health, compose the Capital of the English Company's Government in India.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 65 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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