This carefully studied book explores the shared legacy of everyone who grew up in Kolkata. It records the lives of at least 11 forgotten journalists. Among them is mainly Harry Hobbs, one of Kolkata’s first urban historians.
Hobbs arrived in Kolkata in 1883. Professional piano tuners rose to a prominent member of Kolkata high school society, died in 1956, and he wrote several books, including others. That’s it! (1918), Indian Dust Devil (1937), John Barleycorn Bahadur – Old taverns in India (1943) and The Hotels of Spence and Its Times (1936). They paint vivid pictures of the ever-evolving city, the persistent water crisis that led to the cholera epidemic, the arrival of ice in 1833, the office para Tiffany culture and tenna’s nails, and countless other information.
The arrival of an ice boat on the American ship said Tuscany triggered a series of congratulations and dinner parties in the town. Historian William Dalrymple wrote about his great-great-grandfather James Pattle having a party and offered everyone a “tiptop champion” on the ice. Sadly, of course, Bangladeshi society is slow to catch up with this modern invention. Even in the late nineteenth century, it was rejected by its simple old age.Bof”.
Now, James Pattle plays the “reputation of a liar” in the abolition of Suttee, but in the abolition of Suttee, the son of Justice Puisne, the daughter of Antoine de L’Etang, and Marie Antoinette’s lover was the last French queen before the French Revolution. de l’Etang also met Julius Soubise, a British gentleman who turned black from slavery, who established the first cycling and fence school in Kolkata for men and women.
Slavery was abolished in England in 1833. But Henry Thoby Prinsep, the elder brother of the testator, the founder of Asian society, we have Prinsep Ghat on the Hogley River, delaying India’s logic of abolishing India, which Indians might think is a social habit to them!
Then we have Shakespeare of Kolkata, one of whom is the great-great-great-great-grandson of the bard, Uncle Thomas, and a close assistant to Warren Hastings, who bravely transferred ships in the Mid-Atlantic, allowing him to spend four months with Hasters’ rival Philip Francis, who had competed with him for four months, so that he had been with his predecessor for four months. However, Hastings still faces improper use of public funds.
Isaac Robertoau, a civil servant capitalPolice Detective Richard Reid is one of the earliest British crime writers and a predecessor to Priyanath Mukhopadhyay Darogar Daptar Famous Colonel Percy Wyndham Charivari, IndiaDave Carson’s fellow countrymen will be buzzed by MM Dutt, these extraordinary people are actually the people behind the phenomenon known today as Kolkata. The author attributes his resurrection of them so affectionately for the readers.
Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and other forgotten lives
By Devasis Chattopadhyay
Niyogi
Page 316; Rs 595
