This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of an empire mer

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Figure 41 - An artist's depiction of the Black Town: The Chitpore Road, Calcutta. Coloured chromolithograph by William Simpson, 1867

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