00942pab a2200157 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Banerjee, Sumanta Revisiting Kolkata as an `NRB' 2004 p.5203-205. 4 Dec Two victorian colonial trends continue to persist in modern Kolkata - the miserable existence of the city's poor on its pavements and a rejuvenated fascination for the glory of the raj on the other; both are sustained by the prerogatives and compulsions of the ruling party. The party's efforts to establish its hegemony over all spheres of civic life has fostered a symbiotic relationship with a rising criminal class - a class that feeds on and, in turn, also sustains the different socio-economic groups who have chosen to make Kolkata their home. - Reproduced. Urban development Economic and Political Weekly 63533 63533 63533 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 39, Issue no: 49 AR63983 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR