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From: "karoo" <>
Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Life and culture of the Calcutta of the1940s
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 20:20:15 +0800
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Thank you very much indeed Harshwardhan for access to this site. I began
with Arriving in Calcutta and have already found input from such a diversity
of people ..... people whose thoughts on Calcutta I for one, would not have
had access to. The years 1940s did indeed make of Calcutta a city buzzing
with 'extracurricular' events that affected the whole general populace. I
think that if even any old rickshaw wallahs have survived, they would have
tales of their own to tell !
Many thanks again Harshoo and - this is my first introduction as you can
see, to the site !
Sally


I might have mentioned this page earlier. If so, this would be a repeat =

--- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

*** We are a group interested in finding out more and
presenting the history, life and culture of the Calcutta
of the 1940s. Our first aim is the capturing of the
personal reminiscences of Calcutta and surrounding
area in one of its most dramatic decades i.e. from
1939-1950. To illustrate these reminiscences, we
are also looking for old maps, pictures, newspaper
articles, diaries etc.

Our second aim is to educate people about life in Calcutta
in the 1940s. To do that we are building up a virtual
museum on the internet, with the materials we have
collected, where they can be publicly viewed sorted
by topics. Quite a bit of our material can already
be viewed on this website, in the sections 'Daily Life',
'Communities', 'Guided Tours' and 'Historic Events'. ***
[snip]

http://gypsyscholar.com/101main.html


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