I never knew my tilotoma was so beautiful then...this metalized world has changed her so much..but saying that I guess thas called the phases of life...thank you soo much sir for make me to treasure the beauty of my culcutta my city my home my tilotama..the most beautiful place..this vidoe realy made my day sir thankx...soo far from her....bt today after this video yet not soo...thank you, thank you soo much...I realy mean it...
Calcutta: The Mother of Modern India. I'm from Bombay, Marathi speaking, been living in the United States for 25 years and have never been to Calcutta. It has always been my desire although there's a lot of negative things said about this great city. Calcutta can never be Bombay and Bombay can never be Calcutta. Even today, when you look at old pictures or films showing Calcutta, you can almost sense that old world imperial greatness of the city coexisting with the progressive, intellectual yet nationalistic Bengali spirit which gave India it's greatest scientists, poets, artists, economists, freedom fighters and revolutionaries. It gave us Guruji Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Bose, J.C.Bose, Netaji Bose. It was this city that was so representative of the Eastern world besides being the real jewel in the British Crown. What London was to the west Calcutta was to the east. It gave India it's Indianness, it's Indian pride. Today this once greatest of cities may have fallen into decay but so have all great cities and empires eventually. I have no reservations in calling Calcutta the "Mother of Modern India". My annual visits to India (actually, only Bombay) are typically brief, 3 or 4 weeks but soon I will make the time to take a trip to Calcutta and pay my homage to this great city without which India would not be India as we know it today! JACKSON, Mississippi.
I thank you Jackson for your unassailable love for the city you never visited so far. Though the cultural scenario went through many a change, the city with the relics of her past will welcome you warmly. You may like to have a look to a few of them in my blog at www.puronokolkata.com.
Saw the pictures for which I wanna thank you, sir. Actually, my fascination with Calcutta and Bengal started in high school in the early 1970s when one of our English text books was "Pather Panchali" by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee. Matter of fact, so much so that I could actually see the landscape & characters through Apu's eyes, including Harihar Ray, Sarbajaya, the old grandmother and even his sister Durga's death. I, along with half the class actually cried as our teacher read that part. What a great book! Then a couple of years later, the film society of our college, Ruia College, screened the movie by the towering giant of Indian (and world) cinema, Satyajit Ray. Although I was not as impressed by the remaining two of the trilogy, Pather Panchali remains etched in my mind as a textbook example of how a movie, any movie, should be made. Of course, the story was by B. Banerjee but the camera, locations, characters, music was characteristic Ray masterpiece. If Ray had been American, British or even French born, he would have been an institution so celebrated that even the Oscars would have been named after him. Just on the basis of Pather Panchali alone. In school, our Indian history text was by Calcuttans R.C.Mujumdar, Roychaudhury and Dutta although it was printed in England by the Oxford Univ. Press. That book alone inspired me so much that Indian history became my favorite subject and I went on to secure the highest marks in the subject at the Indian Senior Cambridge exam (10th grade). I almost decided to pursue history in college and wanted to study M.A. at Presidency College in Calcutta but I went on to study medicine in Bombay itself and become a doctor instead. Thanks also for your kind invitation to visit Calcutta, will definitely keep it in mind. My name is Sudhir and my wife and I are both doctors (pediatricians) here in Mississippi state in the U.S.A. Will also ask for your advise since I don't know anybody in Calcutta, as to where to stay (I've heard that the Oberoi Grand is very good) and what places to visit. Will let you know. Good wishes. Jackson, MISSISSIPPI. P.S. Forgive me for some of my spellings which are American and not Indian/British. Asok Mukhopadhyay
Asok Mukhopadhyay You really are funny because his name is not Jackson. He is from Jackson, a city in USA. First learn about some geography and then ponder over the ashes of Kolkata's glorious past which was once crumbled to dust by 40 years of Communism and now by the Great Mamata Banarjee. Remove this worthlesspoliticians and see how Kolkata truly become once again the Crown of India.
Argha Roy Hello Mr Roy,Long back, while working at Emerald Bower campus, BT Road, I happened to receive quite often letters addressed to me as "Mr. Bower". This was the same kind of goof-up what I did this time. My sincere apology to perikaveera and thanks to you.
Unfortunately it was a miserable city, it is a miserable city now, I am afraid that it will remain as the same in the near future.I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh .
Thank you for this upload. I've been to Calcutta a few times, most recently 4&5.2018 for 1 hot month, and love the city and it's people.. It is a shame that it's old buildings and historical architecture has been allowed to decay so. Of course this decay is not unique to Calcutta - the same is true for all Indian cities I am familiar with. Indeed, architectural decay can be seen in all big cities worldwide. The real shame, in my mind, is that there are not enough people who truly care about maintaining old architecture. I hope the big developers who want to destroy the old parts of Kolkata do not get their way.
These scenes from our dear Calcutta of years preceding the 1947 independence bring back those days in vibrant memories, sweet yet tingling with aching nostalgia, - tuning in a distant chorus of many lost loves. Looking at those people's nameless faces I fancy, oh! where they are today! Likely, all of them have returned to the soil by now; perhaps many of those street dwellers were slaughtered in the massive carnage in 1946. Many events, political and social, partisan and religious, have taken place. Many crowds have gathered and dissipated. Many glitters have dimmed out, and many promises betrayed and lost. Today's Kolkata has undergone a massive plastic surgery, showing a facial change, -yet the heart is still there, the emotions, human behavior, and the contrasting human conditions remain unchanged. This eye-wetting footage is of a monumental value today. Many of us can dip into their own memories of some living experiences and hearsay of events, relations, and the challenging experiences of life-struggle of their senior family members during those lost days. Let's pay our loving tribute to those who lived and toiled in that Calcutta making it a great city, as they come back before our eyes. My gratitude to that American photographer and the presenter of this short documentary.
Love your comments and the presentation. Are you an author or a professor? Wish I could express my feelings in a similar fashion. I was born in Kolkata during the British Raj and spent 28 years of my life there. Most of my close relatives are gone now but I still feel quite nostalgic reminiscing my sweet memories.
Wonderful pictures taken by an American with great objectivity. Taken at a time when academics had not yet invented the term 'third world'. The picture of the dying woman is moving. I still retain the habit of not leaving anything on my plate. Result of my parents's scoldings - they had actually seen people in calcutta dying of hunger. Contrary to one comment the photos and their captions are totally free from racism. So many GIs are depicted mixing with the 'natives ' and seem to be quite comfortable. Native was a common term in those days.
It wondering me, because picture talks me untold stories that we didn't notice until now. I never been there, but it's encouraging me to be there if possible. I hope I would be happy to visit Calcutta. Thanks to publisher a lot
+Asok Mukhopadhyay you are most wellcome sir. I have a humble request that can you publish a book of these photos. It will be a great useful to all of us specially the younger generation who will get an idea of how calcutta in the raj era was. I also want you to publish photos of undivided bengal before 1947.
Thanks Shaheen for your warm response. It is heartening to know that you and your generation love old Calcutta so much. Wish you had visited my website at www.puronokolkata.com. Warm wishes
Golden Bengal that too undivided. Who broke this sonar Bangala? .Zina. I will visit soon Calcutta and taste cutlet,singada and lot of Bengali sweets. love from Rajasthan.
If interesting, kindly see my google youtube comments on old songs and photographs.Perhaps you too listen the old begali/Hindi songs in youtube.Thank you sir.
Mere nanaji british police me nokri karte the 1942-1947 taq. Nokri ke silsile me unko bengal,bihar,Assam me jana parta tha. Taqsim e hind ke baad pakistan police me nokri karna shuru Kya.1947-1969 taq.
But for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Calcutta would have been a part of East Pakistan. He initiated the partition of Bengal during 1947 and ensured Kolkata was in India en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syama_Prasad_Mukherjee
Thank you. Glad that you like my presentation. Your video on NRS is a creative documentation. I admire it. You may be interested to visit my website at www.puronokolkata.com
Thank you Shri Choudhri for your comment. It is interesting to learn that your friend one Mr Milton has Clyde Waddell’s album in original. Wish you had given adequate information about Mr. Milton and his collection. So far I know Waddell’s Calcutta photo albums are available in two archives, one in British Library, the other in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, UPEN. I suggest you read the Wiki on Clyde Waddell and update with deatails. Kind regards
That time Calcutta was ours too. Our plenty of relatives lived in calcutta before partition as it was capital of Undivided Bengal. I read book of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman(Founder of Bangladesh) where he wrote about Calcutta city,his political career & why Calcutta wasn't be part of East pakistan. Then Dhaka was a tiny town , losing calcutta was a great regret for Bengalies and more regret was give in the city to non-bengali , out-sider hindustanis. Some west pakististani political leaders didn't want Calcutta as part of Pakistan cz, if it was in, Calcutta would be Capital of federal Pakistan ,not Karachi/islamabad. As muslim league was controlled by punjabies , it wasn't possible then to deny their desire,cz situation wasn't auspicious. We bengalies lost our city by this means. In calcutta ,there still live some bengalies but they lost their actual rich culture. Long live #Calcutta. you will be remain on Bengalies heart forever. Love from Bangladesh.
Russian adventurer Lebdoph sat up in Calcutta Bengal Theater. It was the first such thing in Asia. British Govt named the road passing by Theater Road. It was a integral part of the history of the city. But sometime in 60 the name was changed. A very stupid act.
Thank you, Shivkumar, for your nice comments. Why not we make a Garbage Grabber Club? Like to know more about you and your garbage, - Asok (mindprint9@gmail.com)
how do you define a person mad ? just because he is naked !! just because he has lost all his senses due to some terrible tragedy, does he become a madman ? i would like to hear your answer.
I don't understand how people are seeing the glory of our city in this video? It looks to me like the sites of British oppression from which we still suffer till this day. Anyone remember the Bengal famine? Who caused it? How was it caused? Well friends it was caused by Mr. Churchill the then prime minister of British India, who diverted the entire food produce to feed the soldiers fighting someone else's war. And they too didn't need that much ration and most was wasted. I suggest not to bask in the glory of such images. This is British oppression one o one
Good to see Calcutta in those days....free from pollution... Although I didn't like few descriptions like calling a snake charmer's dressing sense weird or mentioning a naked man as 'mad' without knowing the exact reason. Our city of joy would've looked much better if they weren't ruled by Britishers!
Thanks my friend. Your observation seems rather oversimplified and inappropriate for discussion here. I would be happy if you visit puronokolkata.com, and to verify your statement, find someone like Ramdulal Dey at puronokolkata.com/2016/09/07/ramdulal-dey-the-millionaire-bengal-merchant-1752-1825/ Kind regards .
Are there not many good and admirable things in Calcutta? This is the cheapest and most cruel way of depicting our Mother land India. Heart pains . Anyone who has good pictures and historical background photographs of Calcutta please circulate in utube
Calcutta or Kolkata was a MISERABLE city, it is a MISERABLE city now, I am afraid that IT WILL REMAIN AS THE SAME IN THE NEAR FUTURE. This city is heavily depended on Dhaka as well as Bangladesh in terms of economy , tourism etc. Unfortunately India is looting the poor neighbours like Bangladesh( too much) , Nepal, Bhutan , Mayanmar etc. SHAME to India. I am from DHAKA, Bangladesh , living in Europe now.
Bengali language and culture comes under family tree of Sanskrit language which is one of the oldest spoken language much much before Islam was introduced. Also the Mughals adapted Bengali Architecture which has been clearly written in Class 7 NCERT books. My question is How is West Bengal today Muslim dominated?? ahh!! Bengali Muslims of West Bengal including Muslims of India must go through a DNA test 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Jokes apart! You are our friends. All I want to say the Muslims and other religions that Jis Desh m tum paida huway aur desh k agar tum bhakt nahi toh toh toh na maa ka tumnay doodh piya aur Baap ka tummay rakht nhi.
why u guys always think about Muslim.really its to much .we don't think about Hindu for 1 second .we try to enjoy ur culture cause every time its look very new for us. grow up man.
REAL INDIAN I am so sorry to correct u that the language bengali is not at all derived from Sanskrit.There is a wrong trend to say that Sanskrit is the mother of Bangla.Actually it derives from Magadhi apavrangsa.U can read ancient books like Charjapad,Srikrishnakirtan which are the examples of early Bangla language.I have done my Masters in Bangla.So I request u to gather some knowledge to mend ur information.I am very sorry if I have offended u.
A piece of history. Many of us who grew up in 50’s and 60’s in Calcutta can take a trip down the memory lane. Thanks for the upload.
I like to see this video , it,s beautifully captured old Kolkata , people and their daily life .
I never knew my tilotoma was so beautiful then...this metalized world has changed her so much..but saying that I guess thas called the phases of life...thank you soo much sir for make me to treasure the beauty of my culcutta my city my home my tilotama..the most beautiful place..this vidoe realy made my day sir thankx...soo far from her....bt today after this video yet not soo...thank you, thank you soo much...I realy mean it...
Sumudra Dey Thanks Sumudra for your kind words. You may also like to pay a visit to my site at puronokolkata.com. Wishes
Asok Mukhopadhyay I wuld love to.sir...
Calcutta: The Mother of Modern India.
I'm from Bombay, Marathi speaking, been living in the United States for 25 years and have never been to Calcutta. It has always been my desire although there's a lot of negative things said about this great city. Calcutta can never be Bombay and Bombay can never be Calcutta.
Even today, when you look at old pictures or films showing Calcutta, you can almost sense that old world imperial greatness of the city coexisting with the progressive, intellectual yet nationalistic Bengali spirit which gave India it's greatest scientists, poets, artists, economists, freedom fighters and revolutionaries. It gave us Guruji Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Bose, J.C.Bose, Netaji Bose. It was this city that was so representative of the Eastern world besides being the real jewel in the British Crown. What London was to the west Calcutta was to the east. It gave India it's Indianness, it's Indian pride.
Today this once greatest of cities may have fallen into decay but so have all great cities and empires eventually. I have no reservations in calling Calcutta the "Mother of Modern India".
My annual visits to India (actually, only Bombay) are typically brief, 3 or 4 weeks but soon I will make the time to take a trip to Calcutta and pay my homage to this great city without which India would not be India as we know it today!
JACKSON, Mississippi.
I thank you Jackson for your unassailable love for the city you never visited so far. Though the cultural scenario went through many a change, the city with the relics of her past will welcome you warmly. You may like to have a look to a few of them in my blog at www.puronokolkata.com.
Saw the pictures for which I wanna thank you, sir. Actually, my fascination with Calcutta and Bengal started in high school in the early 1970s when one of our English text books was "Pather Panchali" by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee. Matter of fact, so much so that I could actually see the landscape & characters through Apu's eyes, including Harihar Ray, Sarbajaya, the old grandmother and even his sister Durga's death. I, along with half the class actually cried as our teacher read that part. What a great book! Then a couple of years later, the film society of our college, Ruia College, screened the movie by the towering giant of Indian (and world) cinema, Satyajit Ray. Although I was not as impressed by the remaining two of the trilogy, Pather Panchali remains etched in my mind as a textbook example of how a movie, any movie, should be made. Of course, the story was by B. Banerjee but the camera, locations, characters, music was characteristic Ray masterpiece. If Ray had been American, British or even French born, he would have been an institution so celebrated that even the Oscars would have been named after him. Just on the basis of Pather Panchali alone.
In school, our Indian history text was by Calcuttans R.C.Mujumdar, Roychaudhury and Dutta although it was printed in England by the Oxford Univ. Press. That book alone inspired me so much that Indian history became my favorite subject and I went on to secure the highest marks in the subject at the Indian Senior Cambridge exam (10th grade). I almost decided to pursue history in college and wanted to study M.A. at Presidency College in Calcutta but I went on to study medicine in Bombay itself and become a doctor instead.
Thanks also for your kind invitation to visit Calcutta, will definitely keep it in mind. My name is Sudhir and my wife and I are both doctors (pediatricians) here in Mississippi state in the U.S.A. Will also ask for your advise since I don't know anybody in Calcutta, as to where to stay (I've heard that the Oberoi Grand is very good) and what places to visit. Will let you know. Good wishes.
Jackson, MISSISSIPPI.
P.S. Forgive me for some of my spellings which are American and not Indian/British.
Asok Mukhopadhyay
Asok Mukhopadhyay You really are funny because his name is not Jackson. He is from Jackson, a city in USA. First learn about some geography and then ponder over the ashes of Kolkata's glorious past which was once crumbled to dust by 40 years of Communism and now by the Great Mamata Banarjee. Remove this worthlesspoliticians and see how Kolkata truly become once again the Crown of India.
Argha Roy Hello Mr Roy,Long back, while working at Emerald Bower campus, BT Road, I happened to receive quite often letters addressed to me as "Mr. Bower". This was the same kind of goof-up what I did this time. My sincere apology to perikaveera and thanks to you.
perikaveera did u went to kolkata bro???
thanks for uploading these precious fotos of old calcutta,because of wich we can see how was calcutta those days
Unfortunately it was a miserable city, it is a miserable city now, I am afraid that it will remain as the same in the near future.I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh .
I was stunned and equally astound with the era before my grandfather was even born!
Beautiful vignettes. Army man an accomplished photographer.
Good quality documentari ,Thank you so much
Thanks a lot for this marvellous effort to showcase the beauty of young Calcutta(Kolkata)!Gauhar Jan's voice was mesmerising!
Excellent historical photo cullection by Mr.Asok!
Thank you for this upload. I've been to Calcutta a few times, most recently 4&5.2018 for 1 hot month, and love the city and it's people.. It is a shame that it's old buildings and historical architecture has been allowed to decay so. Of course this decay is not unique to
Calcutta - the same is true for all Indian cities I am familiar with. Indeed, architectural decay can be seen in all big cities worldwide. The real shame, in my mind, is that there are not enough people who truly care about maintaining old architecture. I hope the big developers who want to destroy the old parts of Kolkata do not get their way.
Priceless pictures, Manny thnks
I am very glad to watch this video and thankful to Mr. Asok babu as well as American military man
A great collection of photos
Sir, I greatly appreciate the vividness of the photographs and your presentation.
aritra bose Thanks Aritra! All credit goes to the photographer, Waddell, and to the Van Pelt Library for preserving these for us. Kind regards
These scenes from our dear Calcutta of years preceding the 1947 independence bring back those days in vibrant memories, sweet yet tingling with aching nostalgia, - tuning in a distant chorus of many lost loves. Looking at those people's nameless faces I fancy, oh! where they are today! Likely, all of them have returned to the soil by now; perhaps many of those street dwellers were slaughtered in the massive carnage in 1946. Many events, political and social, partisan and religious, have taken place. Many crowds have gathered and dissipated. Many glitters have dimmed out, and many promises betrayed and lost. Today's Kolkata has undergone a massive plastic surgery, showing a facial change, -yet the heart is still there, the emotions, human behavior, and the contrasting human conditions remain unchanged. This eye-wetting footage is of a monumental value today. Many of us can dip into their own memories of some living experiences and hearsay of events, relations, and the challenging experiences of life-struggle of their senior family members during those lost days. Let's pay our loving tribute to those who lived and toiled in that Calcutta making it a great city, as they come back before our eyes. My gratitude to that American photographer and the presenter of this short documentary.
Love your comments and the presentation. Are you an author or a professor? Wish I could express my feelings in a similar fashion. I was born in Kolkata during the British Raj and spent 28 years of my life there. Most of my close relatives are gone now but I still feel quite nostalgic reminiscing my sweet memories.
thanks for letting us know about this
Wonderful pictures taken by an American with great objectivity. Taken at a time when academics had not yet invented the term 'third world'. The picture of the dying woman is moving. I still retain the habit of not leaving anything on my plate. Result of my parents's scoldings - they had actually seen people in calcutta dying of hunger. Contrary to one comment the photos and their captions are totally free from racism. So many GIs are depicted mixing with the 'natives ' and seem to be quite comfortable. Native was a common term in those days.
Wonderful vintage Kolkata..
it is a historical effort. Very good . I made a documentary film on NRS MEDICAL COLLEGE & HOSPITAL. So, I felt your work.
I can actually *feel* the time the pictures were taken
Great clip brother. I haven't seen Kolkatta, but you have literally painted it live for me. 👌
Asok babuke dhanyabad.
Thanks! I must thank you too for your excellent selection of memorable songs. Wishes
really nostalgic. thanks to all behind this beautiful presentation.
Thanks Susovan! Wishes
THANK YOU
Many Thanks
Thanks to you this video upload
I adore this Calcutta.
It wondering me, because picture talks me untold stories that we didn't notice until now.
I never been there, but it's encouraging me to be there if possible. I hope I would be happy to visit Calcutta.
Thanks to publisher a lot
Thank you for posting this old pictures! They are like gems of the past!
I love calcutta during raj era it was quite clean city than today's kolkata
Thank you Shaheen! Quite so, it was very different.
+Asok Mukhopadhyay you are most wellcome sir. I have a humble request that can you publish a book of these photos. It will be a great useful to all of us specially the younger generation who will get an idea of how calcutta in the raj era was. I also want you to publish photos of undivided bengal before 1947.
Thanks Shaheen for your warm response. It is heartening to know that you and your generation love old Calcutta so much. Wish you had visited my website at www.puronokolkata.com. Warm wishes
Asok Mukhopadhyay thank you sir.I will visit your website.
Thanks to appeasing Immigration policies.
Thank you sir, You have done a great job.
Priceless pictures awesome,.
yes that's my city the city of joy
KOLKATA WAS SO CLEAN :/
siddhartha bhowmik thanks to immigration appeasement today...and the socialist antels.
@@bonglordwhoknows7046 🥺.. I would blame socialist antels .. no doubt that..
@@eugeniesissi8686 this video is from pre independence era.. after independence things got worse day by day.. which I fully agree..
Amazing. When India Bangladesh ,Pakistan was one country . LOTS OF LOVE FROM BANGLADESH
اَلسَلامُ عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةُ اَللهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ
ماشاءاللہ
Good quality photos
Thanks for your presentation
Glad you like it! Wishes
Thanks unbound for giving lot of joy and surprise with your presentation. Unique> Dr Sukumar maiti, Medical College, Kolkata
Thanks Sukumarbabu, It's my pleasure! All credit, however, goes to Waddell. You may like to my website www.puronokolkata.com. Wishes
My pleasure! Wishes
Even in early seventees Calcutta was almost like this.
Love the captions
I was immensely moved - 17 Years before my birth. We are such an ephemeral. oh God!
+shakil ahmed Thanks for your mindful words. You may like to see lot more visuals - photographs and lithographs at www.puronokolkata.com. Wishes
i heard that apparently Americans really enjoyed their time in Bengal and some even married the women
Liked it very much.
Wonderful video
I love Kolkata..
Madhubanti Mukherj
Very nice Khub valo laglo
Darun
That time calcutta/kolkata was too clean -
Hahhahahahahahahaha
Golden Bengal that too undivided. Who broke this sonar Bangala? .Zina.
I will visit soon Calcutta and taste cutlet,singada and lot of Bengali sweets.
love from Rajasthan.
Calcuta, abhi Kolkata was as good as London in 1945. Now so much difference, sad.
It was far better structured than now!
Old Kolkata is much neat and clean.....
Please watch this film also A Journey from Calcutta to Kolkata
First time for me to see a rajasthani folk being played to portray the old Calcutta. Lol!
fine document
Thanks! Wishes
great reminisciences of yester years
Very interesting document,. but the background music is very harsh
Its Wonderful...
Sachin jeet Kumar Thanks Sachin! My wishes ..
very nice
FINE REPRESENTATION
ধন্যবাদ পার্থবাবু। শুভেচ্ছা জানবেন
wow sir thank you for showing us this golden age of india but I wish our country was not ruled by britishers brutally though
Glad that you like it so much, my friend. Thanks!
If interesting, kindly see my google youtube comments on old songs and photographs.Perhaps you too listen the old begali/Hindi songs in youtube.Thank you sir.
nice
Thanks! Glad tat you like it
I miss old city Kolkata
Very interesting. Only you could’ve done well by using some good instrumental music in the background.
I am not sure if the extremely bad quality sound in the background added any flavor to the story although that may be the intention.
Mere nanaji british police me nokri karte the 1942-1947 taq. Nokri ke silsile me unko bengal,bihar,Assam me jana parta tha. Taqsim e hind ke baad pakistan police me nokri karna shuru Kya.1947-1969 taq.
I love my kolkata
I love Calcutta very much . It is a oldest and beautiful city. M.A.Ghana. from. New York
i love old calcutta
Are you OK?
But for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Calcutta would have been a part of East Pakistan. He initiated the partition of Bengal during 1947 and ensured Kolkata was in India
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syama_Prasad_Mukherjee
Interesting
Thank you. Glad that you like my presentation. Your video on NRS is a creative documentation. I admire it. You may be interested to visit my website at www.puronokolkata.com
Busy watching a movie featuring Mumbai. I so loved India. Blessings to you.
Newmarket hasn't changed much in a century
Salute Calcutta and india
Ei song kon cinema r keu bolte parbe
This is Mr.Milton's album .my friend has the original album
Thank you Shri Choudhri for your comment. It is interesting to learn that your friend one Mr Milton has Clyde Waddell’s album in original. Wish you had given adequate information about Mr. Milton and his collection. So far I know Waddell’s Calcutta photo albums are available in two archives, one in British Library, the other in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, UPEN. I suggest you read the Wiki on Clyde Waddell and update with deatails. Kind regards
That time Calcutta was ours too. Our plenty of relatives lived in calcutta before partition as it was capital of Undivided Bengal. I read book of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman(Founder of Bangladesh) where he wrote about Calcutta city,his political career & why Calcutta wasn't be part of East pakistan.
Then Dhaka was a tiny town , losing calcutta was a great regret for Bengalies and more regret was give in the city to non-bengali , out-sider hindustanis. Some west pakististani political leaders didn't want Calcutta as part of Pakistan cz, if it was in, Calcutta would be Capital of federal Pakistan ,not Karachi/islamabad. As muslim league was controlled by punjabies , it wasn't possible then to deny their desire,cz situation wasn't auspicious. We bengalies lost our city by this means. In calcutta ,there still live some bengalies but they lost their actual rich culture.
Long live #Calcutta.
you will be remain on Bengalies heart forever.
Love from Bangladesh.
yeah
Russian adventurer Lebdoph sat up in Calcutta Bengal Theater. It was the first such thing in Asia. British Govt named the road passing by Theater Road. It was a integral part of the history of the city. But sometime in 60 the name was changed. A very stupid act.
Thank you, Shivkumar, for your nice comments. Why not we make a Garbage Grabber Club? Like to know more about you and your garbage, - Asok (mindprint9@gmail.com)
good
look much more developed than other part of India at that time
Tanmoy Samanta ever heard about Bengal famine? Those developed areas came at a cost of lives of Indians..
how do you define a person mad ? just because he is naked !! just because he has lost all his senses due to some terrible tragedy, does he become a madman ? i would like to hear your answer.
Vivek Sinha Roy A mad man is mad in behaviour. Uncivilised/irrational behaviour/ man out of senses. The person in the photo was acting insane
At last in 2018 .just saw a old photo of old calicut......by british....
I love my city kolkata
I would thanks.
old calucata much better then new kolkata
I don't understand how people are seeing the glory of our city in this video? It looks to me like the sites of British oppression from which we still suffer till this day. Anyone remember the Bengal famine? Who caused it? How was it caused? Well friends it was caused by Mr. Churchill the then prime minister of British India, who diverted the entire food produce to feed the soldiers fighting someone else's war. And they too didn't need that much ration and most was wasted. I suggest not to bask in the glory of such images. This is British oppression one o one
34yrs cpm now 10yrs tmc.ei dujon mile ses kore diyeche kolkata soho gota bangla k
We have no caste. Barna and caste are different. Barna mean the character of the body.
Guess this is when the bow barracks were offered to the American soldiers
Gurkha knife khukuri proud to be gorkha
Good to see Calcutta in those days....free from pollution...
Although I didn't like few descriptions like calling a snake charmer's dressing sense weird or mentioning a naked man as 'mad' without knowing the exact reason.
Our city of joy would've looked much better if they weren't ruled by Britishers!
College Street!
Manwa lutawe
Kolkata was built by British then Bengalis were poor and now in decay because lack of Bengali entrepreneurship.
Thanks my friend. Your observation seems rather oversimplified
and inappropriate for discussion here. I would be happy if you visit
puronokolkata.com, and to verify your statement, find someone like Ramdulal Dey at puronokolkata.com/2016/09/07/ramdulal-dey-the-millionaire-bengal-merchant-1752-1825/ Kind regards
.
This is utter non-sense, bereft of any knowlegde of history, economics or social science.
RisingStart why don't you Google search MUTTY LAL SEAL
and Dwarkanath tagore if you think Bengalies were poor and BRITISH built Kolkata.
what ruined India is still a mystery
North east west south Kolkata is the best
Are there not many good and admirable things in Calcutta?
This is the cheapest and most cruel way of depicting our Mother land India. Heart pains . Anyone who has good pictures and historical background photographs of Calcutta please circulate in utube
Calcutta or Kolkata was a MISERABLE city, it is a MISERABLE city now, I am afraid that IT WILL REMAIN AS THE SAME IN THE NEAR FUTURE. This city is heavily depended on Dhaka as well as Bangladesh in terms of economy , tourism etc. Unfortunately India is looting the poor neighbours like Bangladesh( too much) , Nepal, Bhutan , Mayanmar etc. SHAME to India. I am from DHAKA, Bangladesh , living in Europe now.
Mamata Muslim is ruling kolkata now
Sunil Kumar racist 😑
You are right . But we can't do anything.
she is a Cm of every religion. Ager muslim bhi hai to problem kya hai, dumb??
debasish mondal right 👍 and that's why we love her
In 1946-47 there was suhrawardi muslim ruling kolkata.
Bengali language and culture comes under family tree of Sanskrit language which is one of the oldest spoken language much much before Islam was introduced.
Also the Mughals adapted Bengali Architecture which has been clearly written in Class 7 NCERT books.
My question is How is West Bengal today Muslim dominated??
ahh!!
Bengali Muslims of West Bengal including Muslims of India
must go through a DNA test
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jokes apart!
You are our friends.
All I want to say the Muslims and other religions that
Jis Desh m tum paida huway
aur desh k agar tum bhakt nahi
toh
toh
toh na maa ka tumnay doodh piya
aur Baap ka tummay rakht nhi.
why u guys always think about Muslim.really its to much .we don't think about Hindu for 1 second .we try to enjoy ur culture cause every time its look very new for us. grow up man.
Oldest Bengali was a part of Bhojpuri language, it's proof these times poem
REAL INDIAN I am so sorry to correct u that the language bengali is not at all derived from Sanskrit.There is a wrong trend to say that Sanskrit is the mother of Bangla.Actually it derives from Magadhi apavrangsa.U can read ancient books like Charjapad,Srikrishnakirtan which are the examples of early Bangla language.I have done my Masters in Bangla.So I request u to gather some knowledge to mend ur information.I am very sorry if I have offended u.
Bengali language isn't derived from Sanskrit. But, mostly influenced.
Bengali language is gramatically derived from Prakrit language .