Research Catalog

Title

The parlour and the streets : elite and popular culture in nineteenth-century Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee.

Author

Banerjee, Sumanta

Publication

• London : Seagull Books, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Alternative Title

Parlor and the streets

Subject

• Elite (Social sciences) > India > Kolkata > History
• Urban poor > India > Kolkata > Social life and customs
• Rich people > Social life and customs
• Folklore > India > Kolkata > History
• Kolkata (India) > Social life and customs
• Kolkata (India) > Intellectual life

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• First published in 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.

Local note

• REPRINT OF 1989 EDITION.

Call Number

JFE 20-3866

ISBN

• 0857426176
• 9780857426178

OCLC

1033772064

Author

Banerjee, Sumanta, author.

Title

The parlour and the streets : elite and popular culture in nineteenth-century Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee.

Publisher

London : Seagull Books, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Description

x, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.

Summary

In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring villages, Calcutta's working-class forged a new urban folk culture from their rural inheritance. Through rich examples of folk performances, Banerjee shows a clash between the culture of the new urban poor and the elite of Calcutta, caught between their aspiration to British social norms and their roots in Bengali society.

Local Note

REPRINT OF 1989 EDITION.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3866