Indians in London : from the birth of the East India Company to independent India / Arup K. Chatterjee.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India, 2021.Description: xxxiv, 507 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color map ; 24 cmISBN:

9789389449174
9389449170

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Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

305.891 23 CHA

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Contents:

A Chronicle Foretold Act I-What Trade Art Thou Scene I The Baptism Scene II Brewing a Colony in a Tea Cup Scene III An Indian Fish, Dead or Alive Act II-Lays of Little Bengal Scene I An Armenian in the City Scene II The Orient Arrives Scene III From an Indian Harem to a London Tavern Scene IV Nurseries for Nabobs Scene V For the Sake of Mahomet Act III-Begums, Baboos, Seamen and Spirits Scene I Married to Empire Scene II Ragtag of the Raj Scene III Scent of Steam Scene IV The Baboos' Last Sigh Act IV-A Nation Known by Stage Scene I City of Counsellors and Clients Scene II Trains of Fact and Folklore Scene III Raising the Bar Scene IV A House of Uncommons Scene V A Theatre of Theatres act v-Defending the Island Scene I Jewel in the Crown Scene II The Spirit and the Spectre Scene III The League of a Nation Scene IV Between the Ink and the Deep Sea Scene V If Empire Be the Love of Food End Notes

Summary: In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever. With William Shakespeare's death, the heart of Albion starts throbbing with four centuries of an extraordinary Indian settlement that Arup K. Chatterjee christens as Typogravia. In five acts that follow, we are taken past the churches destroyed by the fire of Pudding Lane; the late eighteenth-century curry houses in Mayfair and Marylebone; and the coming of Indian lascars, ayahs, delegates, students and lawyers in London. From the baptism of Peter Pope (in the year Shakespeare died) to the death of Catherine of Bengal; the chronicles of Joseph Emin, Abu Taleb and Mirza Ihtishamuddin to Sake Dean Mahomet's Hindoostane Coffee House; Gandhi's experiments in Holborn to the recovery of the lost manuscript of Tagore's Gitanjali in Baker Street; Jinnah's trysts with Shakespeare to Nehru's duels with destiny; Princess Sophia's defiance of the royalty to Anand establishing the Progressive Writers' Association in Soho; Aurobindo Ghose's Victorian idylls to Subhas Chandra Bose's interwar days; the four Indian politicians who sat at Westminster to the blood pacts for Pakistan; India in the shockwaves at Whitehall to India in the radiowaves at the BBC; the intrigues of India House and India League to hundreds of East Bengali restaurateurs seasoning curries and kebabs around Brick Lane… Indians in London is a scintillating adventure across the Thames, the Embankment, the Southwarks, Bloomsburys, Kensingtons, Piccadillys, Wembleys and Brick Lanes that saw a nation-a cultural, historical and literary revolution that redefined London over half a millennium of Indian migrations-reborn as independent India.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	305.891 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		46497

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-481) and index.

A Chronicle Foretold
Act I-What Trade Art Thou
Scene I The Baptism
Scene II Brewing a Colony in a Tea Cup
Scene III An Indian Fish, Dead or Alive
Act II-Lays of Little Bengal
Scene I An Armenian in the City
Scene II The Orient Arrives
Scene III From an Indian Harem to a London Tavern
Scene IV Nurseries for Nabobs
Scene V For the Sake of Mahomet
Act III-Begums, Baboos, Seamen and Spirits
Scene I Married to Empire
Scene II Ragtag of the Raj
Scene III Scent of Steam
Scene IV The Baboos' Last Sigh
Act IV-A Nation Known by Stage
Scene I City of Counsellors and Clients
Scene II Trains of Fact and Folklore
Scene III Raising the Bar
Scene IV A House of Uncommons
Scene V A Theatre of Theatres
act v-Defending the Island
Scene I Jewel in the Crown
Scene II The Spirit and the Spectre
Scene III The League of a Nation
Scene IV Between the Ink and the Deep Sea
Scene V If Empire Be the Love of Food
End Notes

In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever. With William Shakespeare's death, the heart of Albion starts throbbing with four centuries of an extraordinary Indian settlement that Arup K. Chatterjee christens as Typogravia.

In five acts that follow, we are taken past the churches destroyed by the fire of Pudding Lane; the late eighteenth-century curry houses in Mayfair and Marylebone; and the coming of Indian lascars, ayahs, delegates, students and lawyers in London. From the baptism of Peter Pope (in the year Shakespeare died) to the death of Catherine of Bengal; the chronicles of Joseph Emin, Abu Taleb and Mirza Ihtishamuddin to Sake Dean Mahomet's Hindoostane Coffee House; Gandhi's experiments in Holborn to the recovery of the lost manuscript of Tagore's Gitanjali in Baker Street; Jinnah's trysts with Shakespeare to Nehru's duels with destiny; Princess Sophia's defiance of the royalty to Anand establishing the Progressive Writers' Association in Soho; Aurobindo Ghose's Victorian idylls to Subhas Chandra Bose's interwar days; the four Indian politicians who sat at Westminster to the blood pacts for Pakistan; India in the shockwaves at Whitehall to India in the radiowaves at the BBC; the intrigues of India House and India League to hundreds of East Bengali restaurateurs seasoning curries and kebabs around Brick Lane…

Indians in London is a scintillating adventure across the Thames, the Embankment, the Southwarks, Bloomsburys, Kensingtons, Piccadillys, Wembleys and Brick Lanes that saw a nation-a cultural, historical and literary revolution that redefined London over half a millennium of Indian migrations-reborn as independent India.

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