Calling out to the Faraway: Accessing History through Public Gestures in Howrah, West Bengal

This article narrates events, performances and gestures from public life on the rural-urban corridors of Howrah District, on the west bank of the river Hooghly, in southern West Bengal. Howrah is a place of decadent industrial activity, owing much of its spatial organization to colonial manufacture...

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Published in:	South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Main Author:	Atreyee Majumder
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2013-10-01
Subjects:	space public figure public urban history scale
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3614