Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development (London Studies on South Asia)

Ahmed, Sharif Uddin

ISBN 10: 0913215147 / ISBN 13: 9780913215142

Published by Riverdale Co Pub, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development (London Studies on South Asia)
• Publisher: Riverdale Co Pub
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913215147
• ISBN 13: 9780913215142
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840. It is one of the few urban studies which carries through from the ‘old order’ to the new administrative towns of British rule and attempts to show what happened to the communities of townsmen in the period of adaptation. It casts new light on the function and organization of Indian urban societies in the colonial period, on the transfer of western institutions and the organization and composition of Bengali trade outside Calcutta.