Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development

Sharif Uddin Ahmed

ISBN 10: 0913215147 / ISBN 13: 9780913215142

Published by London: Curzon Press, 1986

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Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titling at the spine) Physically 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); (x) 266pp; Index; Bibliography; In the London Studies on South Asia series; Number 4 in the series. Contains: Black & white photographs; Maps; List of abbreviations; Glossary; ISBN: 0913215147 || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185392|| Condition: Seller Inventory # 185392

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Title: Dacca: A Study in Urban History and ...

Publisher: London: Curzon Press

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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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.