It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Representing Calcutta by Swati Chattopadhyay
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city’s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. By examining architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and official...
Representing Calcutta by Swati Chattopadhyay is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Representing Calcutta aloud.
Representing Calcutta is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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