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Calcutta: "a city of splendid palaces and dingy streets": fiction as history: A. L. Basham Lecture by Professor S.N. Mukherjee, recorded 23 October 1986

dc.contributor.authorANU Instructional Resources Unit (1975-1996)
dc.contributor.authorSpeaker: S. N. (Soumyendra Nath) Mukherjee
dc.coverage.spatialCanberra, Australian Capital Territory
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-06T21:25:39Z
dc.date.available2025-02-06T21:25:39Z
dc.date.created1986
dc.description.abstractRecorded at the Asian Studies/Law Link Lecture Theatre, 23 October 1986. -- Professor Mukherjee explores the social universe of Calcutta with the aid of fiction. The late Professor A. L. Basham had a special fascination for an eighteenth-century novel about Calcutta.
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dc.format.extent0:30:16
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dc.format.mediumspoken word
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dc.identifierAU ANUA 51-86020
dc.identifier.otherAU ANUA 51-86021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733734795
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2024
dc.relation.ispartofANU AV Preservation Digitisation Project
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSeries 51 - ANU Instructional Resources Unit Sound Recordings
dc.relation.ispartofseriesItem 86020 - Basham Lecture 1986. Calcutta: A city of splendid palaces and dingy streets. Fiction as History, University of Sydney. By Professor S.N. Mukherjee. Recorded 23/10/1986. Tape 1 of 2
dc.relation.ispartofseriesItem 86021 - Basham Lecture 1986. Calcutta: A city of splendid palaces and dingy streets. Fiction as History, University of Sydney. By Professor S.N. Mukherjee. Recorded 23/10/1986. Tape 2 of 2
dc.relation.ispartofseriesA. L. Basham lecture
dc.rights.licenseThis audio recording is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University
dc.subject.otherLecture
dc.subject.otherAnglo-Indian literature -- History and criticism
dc.subject.otherKolkata (India) -- In literature
dc.subject.otherKolkata (India) -- History
dc.subject.otherKolkata (India) -- Social conditions
dc.titleCalcutta: "a city of splendid palaces and dingy streets": fiction as history: A. L. Basham Lecture by Professor S.N. Mukherjee, recorded 23 October 1986
dc.typeSound recording
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
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local.description.notesSide B blank. Channel balance left heavy. Some distortion present. -- Some distortion present. Channel balance slightly left heavy. Side B blank.

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