Cultures of a Metropolis Anil Acharya The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta by Sumanta Banerjee; Seagull Books, Calcutta, 1989; pp 248, Rs 180.
The language and matrix of poetry and the social organisation of peasant movements in colonial times in eastern India were the two topics of discourse at the Samar Sen Manorial Lectures, 1989.
