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100 _aBanerjee, Sumanta
245 _aRevisiting Kolkata as an `NRB'
260 _c2004
300 _ap.5203-205.
362 _a4 Dec
520 _aTwo 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.
650 _aUrban development
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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