Numcomar, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
oil industry, 1, 2
Old Court House, Street, 1
opium, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
ordinance factories, 1, 2, 3
Orientalists, Orientalism, 1, 2, 3, 4
Orissa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Oriya, Oriyas, 1, 2, 3, 4
Oriya language, 1
Osborne, Sir John, 1
Ochterlony, Sir David, 1
Ochterlony Monument, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Oudh, 1
Oudh, Nawab of, 1, 2, 3
Padavali of Bhanu Singa see Tagore, Rabindranath
Padma, 1
Padma, River, 1, 2
Pakistan, 1, 2, 3,
see also East Pakistan
palaces, 1, 2, 3, 4,
see also Marble Palace
palanquins, 1, 2, 3
Palmer, General, 1
Palta, 1
Panchanan, 1
Pandava Princes, 1
paper, paper products, 1, 2, 3
Paramahansa, Ramakrishna, 1
Paris, 1, 2, 3
Park Street, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Park Street cemetery, 1, 2, 3
parks, 1, 2, 3, 4
‘partition suit’, 1
Patna, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Paull, Mr 1, 2
Pearse, Colonel, 1, 2
peasants, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
see also famine;
land-holding and redistribution
Peel, Sir Robert, 1
Peking, 1,
see also China
Peking Daily News, 1
Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, 1, 2, 3
peons, 1,
see also peasants
People’s United Left Front, 1
Permanent Settlement, 1, 2, 3
Persia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
pilgrims, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pillani, 1
Pillani University, 1
Pitt, William, 1
planetarian, 1
Plassey, battle of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
poetry, 1, 2, 3,
see also Tagore, Rabindranath
police force, on traffic duty, 1, 2, 3;
on goondas, 1;
during 1946 race riots, 1;
vice squad of, 1;
attitude of, 1;
and riots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
under Mukherjee, 1, 2;
and murder of officers, 1, 2;
under Basu, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
riot of, 1
polo, 1, 2
population (of Calcutta), British, 1, 2;
Anglo-Indian, 1;
increase, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
of bustee dwellers, 1;
in Howrah, 1;
density of, 1, 2;
urban, in West Bengal, 1;
of Marwaris, 1;
of Muslims, 1;
forecast for 1986, 1
Portugal, Portuguese, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Portuguese language, 1
Poshman, Bheddari, 1
post office, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Praja Socialist Party, 1
Prasadjote, 1
Presbyterians, 1
Presidency General Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4
Presidency College, 1
Prinsep Ghat, 1
printing, printers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
prisons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
processions, 1, 2,
see also Durga Puja
Provisional Indian Government, 1
Provisional Indian Government (in exile), 1
protection, 1
Publick Advertiser, 1
Puja, 1
Punjab, Punjabis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rabindra Bharati University, 1
Rabindra Sarani see Lower Chitpore Road
Racecourse see horseracing
race riots, 1, 2
Radical Humanist, 1
Raj Bhayan see Government House
Rahmin, Sir Abdur, 1 railway equipment, construction of, 2, 3,
see also locomotive works
railways, development of, 1, 2;
Anglo-Indian service on, 1;
bustees adjoining, 1;
and refugees, 1, 2;
and spread of infection, 1;
overcrowding on, 1, 2;
future planning of, 1;
union activity and, 1;
industrial disputes and, 1;
mentioned, 1, 2
Raj Bhavan see Government House
Rajas, 1
Rajasthan, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ranchi, 1
Rangoon, 1
Raniganj, 1
Rashbehari Avenue, 1
Rashtrapati Bhavan, 1
rates, 1,
see also taxation
Rawdon Street, 1
Red Road, 1, 2, 3
refugees, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
see also immigrants
Regulating Act 1772, 1
Rejasthan, 1, 2
rents, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reserve Bank of India, 1
restaurants, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
The Return of Ulysses, 1
Revolutionary Communist Party of India, 1, 2
Revolutionary Socialist Party, 1, 2, 3
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1
R. G. Kar Hospital, 1
Ribbentrop, 1
rice, 1, in, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Richards, E. P., 1, 2
rickshaws, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
riots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
see also race riots
Ripon, Lord, 1, 2, 3
Rishikesh, 1
roads, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
robbery, 1, 2, 3,
see also riots
Rohillas, 1
Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ronaldshay, Lord, 1, 2, 3
Ross, Surgeon-Major (Sir) Ronald, 1, 2, 3
Rourkela, 1
Roy, Rammohan, 1, 2, 3
Royal Exchange, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rubens, 1
Rudd, 1
Russell, Bertrand, 1, 2
Russia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
sacrifice, 1, 2
sadhus, 1, 2
Sagar Island, 1
St Andrew’s Church, 1
St Anne’s Church, 1, 2
St Helena, 1
St John’s Church, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
St Xavier’s College, 1, 2
Samyukta Socialist Party, 1, 2
Sarkerchak, 1
saltpetre, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sandhya, 1
Sandys, Duncan, 1
sanitation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Sanskrit, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sanskrit, College, 1
Santiniketan, 1
Sanyal, Kanu, 1
Sarasvati, 1
Sarhad, Khojah Israel, 1
Satanuti, 1
Satgaon, 1, 2
Satkhira, 1
scavengers, 1, 2, 3
schools, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
see also education
Schweitzer, Albert, 1
Scotland, Scots, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sea Ip Temple, 1
Sealdah Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Second World War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sen, Gurucharam, 1
Sen Keshub Chandra, 1, 2, 3
Sen, P. C., 1, 2, 3
Sen, Ram Camul, 1
Sena, Shev, 1
Serampore, 1, 2, 3, 4
servants, 1, 2, 3, 4
Seth, Mesroub Jacob, 1
Seth Sukhlal Memorial Hospital see Presidency General Hospital
sexual relations, 1
Sèvres, 1
Shah Jehan, Emperor, 1, 2, 3, 4
Shakespeare Sarani, 1
Shalimar, 1
Shampukur, 1
Shanghai, 1
Shaw, George Bernard, 1
Shia, sect, 1
Shillong, 1
shipbuilding, shipping, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
see al
so boats;
docks
shoeshine boys, 1, 2
Shore, Sir John, 1, 2
Sikhs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Silaida, 1
Siliguri, 1, 2, 3, 4
Simla, 1, 2
Singapore, 1, 2
Singh, Naick Runmust, 1
Sinha, Chief Justice, 1
Siraj-ud-Daula, Nawab, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Siret, M., 1
Sitala, 1
Sira Sakti, Samati, 1
sitar, 1, 2
Sixsmith, Brigadier J. D. C., 1
slavery, 1, 2
Slim, Field-Marshal, 1, 2
Siva the Destroyer, 1
slums, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, see also bustees
smallpox, 1, 2
Smith, Conran, 1
snake-charming, 1, 2
snuff, 1, 2
Socialist Unity Centre, 1, 2, 3
Society for the Promotion of National Feeling among the Educated Native of Bengal, 1, 2
Sodepore, 1
Sonepur State, Maharajah Ruler of, 1
South India, Hinduism in, 1
South East Asia Youth Conference, 1
Soviet Information Service, 1
starvation see famine
State Tourist Board, 1
Statesman, letters in, 1, 2, 3;
on removal of the capital, 1,
on the famine, 1;
advertising in, 1, 2;
contributors to, 1, 2;
on race riots, 1;
and Vintage Car Rally, 1;
and Mother Teresa, 1;
on United Party split, 1;
mentioned, 1, 2, 3
steel, steel products, 1, 2, 3, 4
Stewart, Charles, 1, 2, 3
Strand Road, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
street lighting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
street-sleepers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
strikes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
students, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
sugar cane, 1, 2
Suhrawardy H. S., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sumatra, 1, 2
Sundarbans, 1
Sunni sect, 1
Surat, 1
Sutanuti, 1, 2, 3, 4
suttee, 1, 2, 3
swadeshi movement, 1, 2,
Swaraj Party, 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6
sweepers, 1, 2
synagogues, 1
Tagore, Babendranath, 1
Tagore, Debendranath, 1, 2
Tagore, Dwarkanath, 1, 2, 3
Tagore, Dwijendranath, 1
Tagore, Jatinsamohan, 1
Tagore, Jnanendramhohan, 1
Tagore, Jyotirindranath, 1
Tagore, Prassanakumar, 1
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Tagore, Satyendrath, 1, 2
Taj Mahal, 1, 2
Talleyrand, Prince, 1
Talleyrand, Princess, see Grande, Madame
Tamil, Tamils, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tank Square, 1, 2, 3
Tashkent, 1
Tata family, 1
taxation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
taxis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Taylor, Mary, 1
Taylor, William, 1
tea industry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Telegu, 1, 2
temples, 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
terrorism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
see also riots
textile industry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1, 2, 3
theatre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Thiers, 1
thika tenants, 1, 2
thieves, 1, 2, 3
Thompson, George, 1
Thugs, 1, 2
Tibet, 1, 2
tigers, 1, 2, 3
timber, 1
The Times of India, 1
Tipu Sultan Mosque, 1
Tirmiz, 1
Titian, 1
tobacco industry, 1, III, 2, 3
Tokyo, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tollygunge, 1, 2
Tolly’s Nullah, 1, 2, 3, 237
Toltalah Bazar, 1
trade see commerce
trade unions, 1, 2
traders, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
see also commerce;
East Indian Company
trams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
traffic, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
tuberculosis, 1, 2
Twain, Mark, 1, 2
24 Parganas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
U Thant, 1
Udaipur State, 1
Uluberia, 1
unemployment, 1, 2, 3, 4,
see also factories, closures
unemployment benefit, 1
United Front, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Unitarians, 1
United Kingdom Citizens Association, 1, 2
US Information Service, 1
Upper Chitpore Road, 1
Urdu, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Uttar Pradesh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Valentia, Lord, 1, 2
Vansittart Row, 1
Varadachariar, Mr Justice, 1
Vedas, 1
Viceregal Lodge, 1
Victoria, Queen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Victoria Memorial, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vietnam, 1
Vira, Dharma, 1, 2
Vishakapatnam, 1
Vishnu the Preserver, 1, 2, 3, 4
Vivekenanda, Swami, 1, 2
Volunteer Guards, 1, 2
wages, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
water supply, under East India
Company, 1, 2, 3;
standpipes for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
in bustees, 1, 2, 3;
impurity of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
in tanks, 1, 2, 3;
World Health Organization’s warning, 1;
shortage of filtered, 1, 2, 3, 4;
CMPO plan and, 1
Watson, Colonel, 1, 2
Watts, W., 1, 2, 3
Wavell, Field-Marshal Lord, 1, 2
weapons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Weldon, Commissioner, 1, 2
William IV, King, 1, 2, 3
Wellesley, Richard, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 1
West Bengal, industrial action in, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relations with Delhi, 1;
United Front rule in, 1;
terrorism in, 1;
poor relief in, 1;
1962 elections in, 1;
1967 elections in, 1;
1970 elections in, 1;
unemployment in, 1, 2;
President’s rule in, 1, 2, 3;
and partition, 1;
and reunification, 1;
lack of hospital beds in, 1;
industry in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
population of, 1;
income in, 1;
administration in, 1;
immigrants in, 1;
cholera in, 1;
see also Bengal;
Calcutta, riots;
United Front
West Bengal Business Convention, 1
West Pakistan, 1
wheat, 1, 2, 3
Wilson, Horace, 1, 2, 3
Wood Street, 1
Workers’ Party of India, 1
working hours, 1, 2, 3
World Bank, 1, 2
World Federation of Democratic Youth, 1
World Health Organization, 1, 2, 3
Wyatt, Captain, 1
Yeats, W. B., 1
Yorkshire Regiment, 1
Young Bengal Movement, 1, 2, 3
Zakaria Street, 1
zamindars, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Zoffany, John, 1, 2
1 Calcutta 1971 – A crossing along Chowringhee, always congested and always with an armed guard for the policeman on point duty; for this is a perpetually violent city.
2 Two of the most impressive monuments to British rule. Lord Curzon was responsible for building the domed Victoria Memorial. An officer of the Bengal Engineers copi
ed the Bell Harry Tower of Canterbury Cathedral when he designed St Paul’s Cathedral (in the foreground).
Two men who have helped to make Calcutta what it is,
3 Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prizewinner and most glittering member of a highly talented and influential Bengali family.
4 Jyoti Basu, leader of the CPI(M), and the most powerful communist in India.
5 The lawn – and patient service – at the Tollygunge Club. A focal point of the enormous wealth that has been accumulated in Calcutta.
6 Ochterlony Monument on the edge of the Maidan; focal point of political rallies.
7 Visiting wealth is likely to spend the night in the Great Eastern Hotel. On the pavement outside, a handful of the thousands who have to make do with something less comfortable.
8 A slum of makeshift shanties by a suburban railway line. A commonplace of Calcutta today. Some of the one million refugees who have come to the city from East Pakistan since 1947 have been living in conditions like these ever since.
9 Poverty does not necessarily mean filth. Wherever you go in the city you see people washing all day long – as often as not at broken stand pipes in the gutters.
10 Park Street Cemetery, the ultimate mausoleum to the Raj. Thackeray’s father is buried here, along with Walter Bagehot’s father-in-law, Fanny Burney’s half-brother, a son of Charles Dickens, and scores of other Empire builders.
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