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| Title: | Eventful Adolescence, Memorable Youth: The Politics of Personal Reminiscence in Calcutta. |
| Authors: | Nandi, Sugata |
| Keywords: | Urban History
Calcutta
Food Movement
Naxal Movement
Research Report |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Unpublished |
| Abstract: | The first twenty years after Independence and Partition was an extremely
eventful phase in the urban history of Calcutta. At the stroke of
midnight on August 15, 1947 the city lost its status of Second City of
the British Empire and turned into a third world metropolis seeking a
new identity being overburdened with problems of overpopulation, refugee
influx, steady economic decline and political upheavals. Two decades
later Calcutta witnessed the beginning of Non Congress rule by an
coalition of Bangla Congress, a regional political outfit constituted by
a break away Congress clique and the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Between these two moments a vast number of events had given Calcutta the
new character that it retains till this day. This study will take up
fifteen landmark events of the 1947-67 period that will include among
others the turbulence of the Food Movement, the hardships caused by the
rice crisis of the 1950s and the ‘60s, the growing radicalization
manifest in the general strikes of the period, the beginning of the
Naxal Movement in the mid sixties as well as the short-lived instances
of celebration like the visit by foreign dignitaries like Queen
Elizabeth and the Soviet statesmen Nikita Khrushchev and Bulganin.
Personal reminisces of the adolescents and youths of the 1950s and
1960s, of the incidents listed above will be gathered through interviews
with them. The oral data thus gathered will constitute the primary
source for constructing a collage of remembered experiences. The project
will treat the same as texts authored by individuals who endeavour to
locate and to interpret through the emotional performance of remembering
what may be termed as significant episodes in the recent history of the
city. |
| Description: | Call No - 895.22NAND FS-130.,
Accession No - FS- 130, Dated - 18/03/2008.
Archival Submission---
Final Report -
Interview Transcription |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/364 |
| Appears in Collections: | Independent Research Report (R)
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